Uros Pasajlic, father of "bathtub child," got arrested here: He hid in a friend's apartment for three days

Photo: Handout photo, Marko Jovanovic

Uros Pasajlic (38), the father of a girl (8) whom he is suspected of having kept imprisoned in an apartment in Zvezdara, Belgrade, was arrested yesterday in an apartment in the neighborhood of Karaburma, and as we learned at the scene, he came there on March 25 in a Peugeot car, neighbors say.

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"We noticed that car on March 25, we all know whose car belongs to whom, and this one was new on the street and was parked there all the time. A man lives alone in the apartment where Uros was arrested, he has company coming all the time. No one paid attention, now we connected the dots because of that car. The police came, knocked on the door, they went inside, as far as we could see, Uros came out calmly with them," a neighbor told us.

Uros was located using data from mobile phone base stations.

"The search for him was announced on March 24, he was arrested 4 days later in Karaburma thanks to mobile phone base stations," a source from the investigation told us.

During the investigation of this case, new horrific details emerged.

"The girl (8) lived alone in that apartment, he sometimes came and visited. She lived in the bathroom, locked up. The key was on the outside. When the door was unlocked, she was found in the bathtub, dressed. She had no visible injuries, but was in a catastrophic condition. The whole apartment was full of garbage," the source from the investigation told us.

The source added that Ivana L. (47) told the police that he keeps the child in an apartment, where he goes to occasionally.

"She came to the station with visible serious injuries on her face. She said that Uros headbutted her nose and that she thought he broke it. Then she stated that she found out he had a daughter that he kept in an apartment in Mirijevo (a neighborhood in Zvezdara) and that he only goes there occasionally," the source told us.

From the moment the child was found, a manhunt started for Uros, and he was arrested yesterday.

(Telegraf.rs)