An ex-girlfriend of a trucker dubbed the Czech Josef Fritzl who allegedly chained up and tortured a woman for three months has revealed the sexual depravities she was forced to endure while she was pregnant with his child.
Karel N, 40, is already accused of holding a woman captive in the basement of a house in the village of Sirem, Louny region, in the north-west of the Czech Republic. and torturing her for more than three months.
Now, another woman has come forward to outline the abuse she suffered at the hands of the trucker. The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, said Karel N., her ex-boyfriend, tortured her and tied her up while she was pregnant with their son.
‘He wrapped me in cling film, made himself good on me and then fell asleep next to me,’ she told Czech outlet CNN Prima News. She has severe asthma and said she nearly suffocated as she was lying next to Karel N. in clingfilm and handcuffs.
Another time her ex-boyfriend took her to a forest, where he allegedly forced her to strip naked apart from her boots before tying her up and suspending her from a tree. She said the pervert then took naked pictures of her.
The woman and Karel N. were together for four years until they broke up more than ten years ago – but she didn’t speak up about the horrifying abuse she suffered during their relationship until now out of fear of losing custody of her son.
‘He threatened me that if I left, he would take my child,’ she said, adding that she had no job or support system at the time.
Karel N.’s ex-partner came forward after the truck driver was arrested for chaining up the 27-year-old woman he allegedly held captive, repeatedly raping her and making her drink from a dog bowl during the horrifying ordeal.
The case eerily resembles that of incest monster Josef Fritzl, 89, who held his daughter captive to abuse her under his house in Austria for years.
The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, said her truck driver ex-boyfriend Karel N. (pictured), 40, tortured her and tied her up while she was pregnant with their son
The house of horrors where the 27-year-old woman was chained up and abused in the basement for three months
Another ex-girlfriend said Karel N. ‘enjoyed tying, strangling, beating’. She told CNN Prima News that he would also tape her mouth shut.
She said when they attended a wedding together, he forced her to behave like a dog once everyone had gone to bed. ‘He took out a collar and a leash. He put the collar on me, he held the leash and I had to crawl like a dog,’ she said.
‘We walked for about four minutes along a dirt road and at the end of the road there was a cross where I had to lean and he beat me with a belt. Twenty blows and I had to count out loud.’
She said she was relieved when the truck driver had to drive abroad for work, but she was too afraid to leave him. When he returned, the abuse escalated.
‘I was actually hanging from the ceiling with handcuffs and a rope. He covered my eyes so I couldn’t see what toys he was using,’
In the most recent case, Karel N. allegedly held his 27-year-old victim in squalid conditions in the house of horrors and was forced to eat and drink from a dirty dog bowl.
The woman dramatically escaped the Fritzl-like hell at around 3am on February 16 and woke up neighbours to beg them for help.
‘She had no hair and a thick chain with a huge lock around her neck, she was just skin and bones,’ a resident who helped the frightened victim told the Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes.
‘She said he shaved her head and rarely gave her anything to eat, just sometimes a little bread and water from a bowl, like a dog,’ the woman said about the victim’s ordeal.
‘He stripped her naked, chained her up, beat her, raped her and did other crazy things to her.’
In the most recent case, Karel N. (pictured) allegedly held his 27-year-old victim in squalid conditions in the house of horrors and was forced to eat and drink from a dirty dog bowl. The woman dramatically escaped the Fritzl-like hell at around 3am on February 16 and woke up neighbours to beg them for help
The woman and her husband helped the victim pry off the chain around her neck with a bolt cutter and called an ambulance as well as the police.
‘She [said she] was tied to a heavy bed. She managed to pull the chain out and use it to climb out of the window,’ the rescuers told local media.
The victim ‘managed to escape at night when he was not home’, according to a local resident.
Karel N. reportedly knew the 27-year-old victim.
Another of Karel N.’s former partners revealed to local media that Karel N. enjoyed extreme sexual practices.
‘I know that he practiced BDSM with other women, he was such a manipulator, he could convince them. He tried it on me too, but I refused,’ the woman told Denik.cz.
She added: ‘He talked about locking some woman in a basement and going there to torture her. I had no idea he would actually do it.’
One ex-partner said Karel N. was known to take it too far during the extreme BDSM he liked to practice.
‘Then he brought them flowers and apologized. In my opinion, he is a sick person, he should seek treatment. I’m afraid he is capable of strangling someone in the end,’ she said.
One victim whose rape ordeal at the hands of Karel N. actually saw him get jailed for three years before being freed following an appeal has also spoken out about the torture she had to endure.
The 22-year-old woman said that she was raped, brutally beaten and had her nipples forcibly pierced by Karel N. in the cellar of a house in the village Kryry, Louny, in the northwest of the Czech Republic in 2021.
He allegedly put a dog head mask on her head, hung her with chains on all fours and gave her electric shocks. An female acquaintance reportedly watched and even helped Karel N. with the torture.
‘She said he shaved her head and rarely gave her anything to eat, just sometimes a little bread and water from a bowl, like a dog,’ a witness said. Pictured are dog bowls outside the house
‘When I screamed, he stuffed a washcloth in my mouth. I had an electric collar on my neck, he was beating me. He also pierced my nipples, with what, I don’t know exactly,’ she said.
The victim told of the serious sexual assault she endured, adding that when the man thought she misbehaved, he would punish her with an electric shock from the dog collar she was forced to wear, according to Zatecky Denik.
‘He didn’t want me to talk, I just had to bark. And also eat from a bowl,’ the young woman said.
She also urged prosecutors to put Karel N. behind bars after she heard that he had raped and abused another woman – the 27-year-old who managed to flee on February 16.
‘I told my friend that I couldn’t believe he did this to someone else. It’s just terrible,’ she told Czech newspaper Seznamzprazy.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, said she had had consensual sex with Karel N. on one occasion before she was attacked by him but made it clear that she didn’t want their personal relationship to continue.
She reportedly returned to his house for what was supposed to be a work meeting on another day after Karel N. offered her a job as a hostess.
She said she was given a drink which made her ‘feel unwell’. When she tried to leave, he allegedly put a dog mask on her head and tied her up with chains before beating and raping her.
Another woman, said to be his friend, allegedly watched Karel N. abuse the victim.
The victim eventually managed to pry her restraints open with a sharp object and escape through the cellar window after a day of torture, with witnesses saying she was naked and had ‘handprints and bruises everywhere’.
A Czech broadcaster showed footage of the house of horrors where the 27-year-old victim was allegedly tortured for months, with a yellowed name tag seen on the letter box outside the house
‘It was clear that someone had beaten her brutally,’ one family, which called the police and took the woman in after she knocked on their door following her escape, told local media.
‘She was held in a torturous manner, one could even say tortured in various ways, and her human dignity was humiliated. There was also a certain form of sexual intercourse,’ Hana Bachova, the president of the Louny District Court, told local outlet CNN Prima reports.
Karel N. was jailed for three years for rape and deprivation of liberty of the 22-year-old in April 2022, but he was released on probation in July 2022 following an appeal.
He swore at the time that he would never do anything like this again and the judge ruled that the three-year sentence Karel N. had been handed was disproportionately harsh, according to CNN Prima.
Karel N. has been arrested and is now awaiting trial for the recent abduction and abuse of the 27-year-old victim and is in custody due to being a flight risk as he travels frequently due to his job as a truck driver.
‘He is a person who often travels outside the Czech Republic, so the reason for his detention was found to be a fugitive,’ Katerina Dousova, deputy of the Regional State Prosecutor’s Office, said.
‘At the same time, not all witnesses were heard and there is a risk that he could influence their statements and also repeat his criminal activity.’
If found guilty, Karel N. faces up to 12 years in prison.
