MARACAY: Venezuelan prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a man on charges that he sexually enslaved a woman whom he held captive for 31 years in an apartment building, a case that has shocked residents of the city of Maracay near the capital of Caracas. Matias Salazar, 56, was also accused of crimes including psychological violence, and sexual violence and sexual slavery of the 49-year-old woman identified only as Morella, prosecutors said in a statement. Several said they had not noticed anything out of the ordinary and that Salazar had always been friendly to them. Morella on Jan 24 escaped from the apartment building and sought help at a branch of a state-run women’s advocacy agency, prosecutors said. Morella subsequently returned to the apartment in the company of prosecutors, according to neighbours.

Source: New Strait Times February 11, 2020 21:45 UTC