<p>The 48-year-old man, named in media reports as lorry driver Detlef S., stands accused of 350 counts of sexual abuse and grievous sexual assault of minors.<br /><br />Between 1987 and 2010, the man is suspected of abusing the trio and even farming the two females out to other men for sexual abuse in exchange for money.<br /><br />One of the man's neighbours told the Rhein-Zeitung local daily: "We often wondered about the several children in his house. Especially because they looked so much like him."<br /><br />The stepdaughter, now 27, has seven children from her stepfather aged from 11 years to 15 months, her lawyer Katharina Hellwig said. An eighth child died.<br /><br />Authorities were alerted after the man's real daughter, 18, wrote a goodbye letter to the mother which was however intercepted by her half-sister, who gave it to social services, Hellwig said.<br /><br />The man was arrested on August 10, 2010 and has been in custody ever since. The mother, who is in her 50s, is expected to appear as a witness in the trial and prosecutors are not charging her with any offence, Hellwig added.<br /><br />"It looks as if she repressed what went on," the lawyer said. The trial is set to begin at the regional court in Koblenz, western Germany, on Tuesday.<br /><br />"The crimes are so horrific that even experienced lawyers are shocked," the Rhein Zeitung said.<br /><br />The case bears some similarities to that of Josef Fritzl in neighbouring Austria, who held his daughter Elisabeth as a sex slave in a cramped windowless dungeon for 24 years.<br /><br />Fritzl raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her and letting one of the newborn babies die. He was sentenced to life in prison in March 2009. <br /></p>
<p>The 48-year-old man, named in media reports as lorry driver Detlef S., stands accused of 350 counts of sexual abuse and grievous sexual assault of minors.<br /><br />Between 1987 and 2010, the man is suspected of abusing the trio and even farming the two females out to other men for sexual abuse in exchange for money.<br /><br />One of the man's neighbours told the Rhein-Zeitung local daily: "We often wondered about the several children in his house. Especially because they looked so much like him."<br /><br />The stepdaughter, now 27, has seven children from her stepfather aged from 11 years to 15 months, her lawyer Katharina Hellwig said. An eighth child died.<br /><br />Authorities were alerted after the man's real daughter, 18, wrote a goodbye letter to the mother which was however intercepted by her half-sister, who gave it to social services, Hellwig said.<br /><br />The man was arrested on August 10, 2010 and has been in custody ever since. The mother, who is in her 50s, is expected to appear as a witness in the trial and prosecutors are not charging her with any offence, Hellwig added.<br /><br />"It looks as if she repressed what went on," the lawyer said. The trial is set to begin at the regional court in Koblenz, western Germany, on Tuesday.<br /><br />"The crimes are so horrific that even experienced lawyers are shocked," the Rhein Zeitung said.<br /><br />The case bears some similarities to that of Josef Fritzl in neighbouring Austria, who held his daughter Elisabeth as a sex slave in a cramped windowless dungeon for 24 years.<br /><br />Fritzl raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her and letting one of the newborn babies die. He was sentenced to life in prison in March 2009. <br /></p>