Woman was kidnapped and kept as a sex slave by her stepfather for 19 years and gave birth to 9 children

33-year-old Rosalynn McGinnis from Oklahoma was kidnapped when she was 12 years old and held in custody in Mexico by his 62-year-old stepfather Henri Michele Piette for 19 years. Kept as a sex slave, McGinnis was repeatedly raped and gave birth to nine children until she managed to escape last year in June.

McGinnis told the media that Piette had been harassing her since she was very young. Things started to get worse when Piette gave her a wedding ring and married her in a twisted “wedding ceremony” in the back of a van when she was 11.

A year later in 1997, Piette started rapeing this 12-year-old innocent girl. Worse still, McGinnis’ mother fled from the family and left her with the rapist because of intolerable domestic violence. McGinnis was then snatched away from her school to a remote rural area in Mexico.

In captivity, McGinnis suffered from near daily sexual assaults, beatings by baseball bat, stabbed by knife and even tortured until she went into a coma. She gave birth to nine children until she finally escape from custody in June last year.

McGinnis said she would have gone crazy or died if she kept living in such predicament. Hence she took a taxi with her children to Oaxaca City with money saved up over the years. She eventually managed to contact the authorities and fled back to the US.

Piette was arrested on 5th October in Mexico and extradited to the US. He is charged with first-degree rape and other offences by authorities in Oklahoma, and detained in an Oklahoma jail awaiting trial. As he had been living in Mexico and middle South America for quite a long period of time, Piette is suspected to have deep ties to Mexican criminal organizations, according to FBI.

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian judges have ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison, a court said Tuesday.

The decision on Monday was the latest in a legal back-and-forth on Josef Fritzl's future.

The state court in the town of Krems said in a statement that the 89-year-old can be moved as he no longer poses the kind of danger that requires keeping him in psychiatric detention. The decision was based on an April 30 hearing with Fritzl, as well as reports by forensic and psychiatric experts.

Because of Fritzl's advancing dementia and physical decline, psychiatric detention is no longer necessary for his “combined personality disorder” as there is no longer a danger of Fritzl committing serious crimes, the court said.

The court said Fritzl can be moved to the prison for a 10-year trial period but that he cannot be released from detention altogether.

Prosecutors appealed an earlier decision in January that Fritzl could be moved to a regular prison, and both sides also are entitled to appeal the latest decision.

His crime came to light in 2008 and he was sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment for committing incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment and enslavement of his daughter, and negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.

Fritzl became known as the “Monster of Amstetten” after the northern Austrian town where he locked up his then-18-year-old daughter in a sound-proofed basement of his house in 1984.

Over the next 24 years, he repeatedly raped her and fathered seven children with her, one of whom died.

FILE - Josef Fritzl, center, is escorted to the fourth day of his trial in the provincial courthouse in St. Poelten, Austria, Thursday, March 19, 2009. An Austrian court has ruled that the man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison. The decision follows a legal back-and-forth on Josef Fritzl's future. (AP Photo/Robert Jaeger, Pool, File)