A 54-year-old Pole is said to have fathered at least three children with two daughters and then buried the killed newborns in the clay floor of his cellar. After three dead infants were found under the basement floor of a single-family home in the village of Czerniki, southwest of Gdansk, Polish media published details over the weekend. The baby bodies were said to have been wrapped in plastic bags, the newspaper wrote Gazeta Wyborcza.
On Friday evening, the police initially found two dead newborns. “They were buried in the basement. There was no floor there, but tamped clay so that they could be dug up. The bodies were in various stages of decomposition,” a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office told the Polish tabloid portal fact. Investigators found the third dead infant on Saturday morning.
On Saturday evening, the police were still looking for possible additional baby bodies at the crime scene, as the PAP news agency reported. The public prosecutor’s office is investigating the man and his 20-year-old daughter, who lives with him in the house, for murder and incest. On Sunday, a court ordered both to be remanded in custody. Images and film footage published in internet media and on television show that father and daughter apparently lived in poor conditions in a house that appeared neglected and dilapidated in the Pomerania administrative district.
People in the village knew about the incest
The man is said to have lived with his 20-year-old daughter for years. Neighbors told the news portal Fact.plthe two were seen walking hand in hand.
In the village with 180 inhabitants, people knew about the incest. “Everyone was talking about the father sleeping with the daughters,” one villager told the paper. The older daughter was also seen with a baby bump years ago. She is said to be the mother of one of the three dead newborns. The 54-year-old did not let anyone into his house; many in the town were afraid of him. He is said to have 12 children and his wife died in 2008.
Some time ago, the daughter’s work colleagues suspected that the woman was pregnant. She wore loose clothing and apparently wanted to hide her stomach. She took vacation three weeks ago. When she returned to work after a week, she appeared exhausted but rejected questions about having a child. Someone then informed the social welfare office, whose employees contacted the police.