MEET THE MEXICAN JOSEF FRITZL - JORGE INIESTRA

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A MEXICAN man has been accused of imprisoning two teen sex slaves, fathering five children with them and then killing one of them and their baby. In a case chillingly similar that of Austrian madman Josef Fritzl, Jorge Iniestra is accused of abusing the teens, who were the daughters of his girlfriend for seven years and refused to let them outside. The part-time taxi driver allegedly pulled them out of school and locked them in a single filthy room, where he repeatedly abused them, fathering five children aged two, four and five and a three-month-old baby - all of whom are now in protective custody.
Prosecutors say he became fixated with the two girls after starting a relationship with their mother, Clara Tapia, in 2004.
Mexico City's attorney general Miguel Mancera said: "The conditions
were absolutely horrible in the room where he kept the girls. They had to use the bathroom there and their brother had to clean everything up by hand."
"He kept them totally hidden with the windows covered with wooden planks."
He added that Iniestra had five children with the girls and forced their younger brother to sell cardboard and candles outside school to make money.
Prosecutors say Iniestra, a part-time taxi driver, eventually beat one of the girls to death and then smothered a three-month-old baby they had together.
Their bodies were allegedly left in the tiny, fetid room in their Iztapalapa home, for more than a month until they were dumped on a highway.
Police have also arrested Iniestra's mother, brothers and sisters and the girls' mother, who worked as a social worker, for covering up the abuse and not allowing them to escape.
Mr Mancera added that Tapia and her daughters were suffering from Stockhold Syndrome, when captives identify with their kidnappers.
They have apparently defended Iniestra's behaviour during questioning by prosecutors.