A 22-year-old woman in the area of ​​Volos experienced daily torture, as her 28-year-old husband kept her and their 2.5-year-old child locked up and isolated at home for two whole years, while abusing the woman on a daily basis.

According to what TheNewspaper.gr records, the scenes of horror suffered by the girl were revealed on the evening of Thursday 21/9, when neighbors mobilized hearing her screams from inside the house. When they persistently knocked on the door, the 28-year-old opened it and tried to escape, with the residents immobilizing him, while the police were called to the scene and proceeded to arrest him.

As it was revealed, that night the 28-year-old, after a crescendo of violence, grabbed the young woman by the neck and tried to strangle her, while a subsequent examination of the woman indeed revealed signs of strangulation.

In a chilling testimony, the 22-year-old says that the man beat her every day, while on two other occasions he had left her in a much worse situation than the one she found herself in on Thursday. But this time he came very close to killing her.

The couple married in Albania when the girl was just 18, in a marriage “forced” and arranged by her family, and about a year and a half later they had a child together. Two years ago, in 2021, the 28-year-old moved with the young woman and the baby to Greece, in an area just outside Volos, where he works as a builder.

There began an extreme story of confinement and abuse, which lasted two whole years. The man kept the 22-year-old and the child locked and completely isolated at home, with the child never even seeing a doctor.

The girl, who had no one of her own or known people in the city, was left completely cut off. She never learned Greek, since the 28-year-old wouldn’t let her come into contact with anyone. In the two years of her imprisonment, in the last five months she did not even see the light of the sun, as she was forbidden to go out even in the yard of the house.

All this time he kept her captive, not only turning their house into a prison and a place of torture, as well as forbidding her any acquaintance or friendship in a foreign environment, but also blackmailing her daily. He threatened the girl that he himself would go to Albania to kill her parents if she revealed to her family what she was going through or tried to leave.

The 22-year-old’s nightmare ended when the incident came to the hands of the authorities, and after the arrest of the man, she was taken with her child, who is in good condition, to a protected area, so that they are out of danger.

The 28-year-old is in custody, while facing criminal prosecution for prolonged isolation and bodily harm, an act which according to the new criminal code is equivalent to grievous bodily harm.

He was brought before a prosecutor and an investigator yesterday, where he requested a deadline to apologize on Tuesday 26/9, in order to prepare his defense.