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An Argentinean court has charged and ordered the arrest of a man who allegedly fathered ten children with his daughter, a local government agency reported Saturday.
A court in Reconquista, in the province of Santa Fe, alleged that the man violated his daughter for 30 years, the Santa Fe government’s web site reported.
Other cases of sexual abuse were reported in the area 2009, triggering a special inquiry, the government site reported.
Renconquista judge Virgilio Palud was quoted by the government site as claiming that family-based “sexual abuse is common currency in the north of Santa Fe.”
The judge said that two other cases of men fathering children with their daughters have been reported in nearby provinces, the site said.
In April 2008, the world was shocked by the secret life of Josef Fritzl, the so-called “Monster of Austria” who fathered seven children with his daughter, who he kept in confinement.
“This case is more serious than the one in Austria,” Palud was quoted as saying in a Santa Fe newspaper.
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