A second victim of a pervert who allegedly chained up and tortured a woman for three months has come forward to detail her horrifying rape ordeal.
The 22-year-old woman said that she was raped, brutally beaten and had her nipples forcibly pierced by truck driver Karel N., 40, 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 the 22-year-old woman, 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.
‘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.
This comes as a second victim, aged 27, was dramatically rescued on February 16 after three months of being chained up, raped and made to drink from a dog bowl during a horrifying ordeal at the hands of Karel N.
Both cases eerily resemble that of incest monster Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive to abuse her under his house in Austria for years.
The 22-year-old woman said that she was raped, brutally beaten and had her nipples forcibly pierced by truck driver Karel N. (pictured), 40, in the cellar of a house in the village Kryry, Louny, in the northwest of the Czech Republic in 2021
The first victim, aged 22, has now spoken about her ordeal and urged prosecutors to put Karel N. behind bars after she heard that he had raped and abused another woman.
‘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’.
‘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.
The 27-year-old was allegedly tortured by a man named in local media as truck driver Karel N. (pictured), 40, for over three months in the basement of a dilapidated house in the village of Sirem, Louny region, in the northwest of the Czech Republic
Pictured above is the house of horrors in Sirem where the second woman was chained up and abused in the basement for three months
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.
But this appears to have been a lie, as he is now accused of torturing a 27-year-old woman for over three months in the basement of a house in the village of Sirem, also in the Louny region.
She was held 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.’
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.
‘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 above are dog bowls outside the house of horrors
A Czech broadcaster showed footage of the house of horrors, with a yellowed name tag seen on the letter box outside the house
Karel N. reportedly knew the 27-year-old victim.
His neighbours have described the truck driver as ‘sociable’, adding that he would often be gone for longer periods of time due to his job.
One of his 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.’
Karel N. had allegedly practiced BDSM with several women in the past and was known to take it too far. H
‘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,’ his ex-partner said.
Karel N. has been arrested and is now awaiting trial for the recent abduction and abuse of the second 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.
