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Doctor drugged, raped woman in homemade dungeon

A Swedish doctor fed a woman drug-laced strawberries and then repeatedly raped her in a homemade bunker that he planned to use for more victims, Swedish authorities said.

The doctor, 38, is accused of holding the woman hostage for a week, feeding her the roofie-laced fruit and sexually assaulting her in a chamber he specifically built for such attacks under his farm in Eastern Göinge, officials said.

Friends of the man, who has not been named, said the fiend was an intellectual who was socially awkward and secretive, according to the Swedish newspaper Kristianstadsbladet.

He once showed pals the outside of his underground dungeon, which he spent five years building and where police say he intended to hold more women hostage.

“He had just built it when I was there. But the only thing he showed was outside. We wondered what it looked like on the inside, but he just said it does not matter because it is empty inside,” a friend told the paper.

The doctor allegedly gave the woman, who is in her 30s, a box of chocolate-covered strawberries spiked with Rohypnol while at her place in Stockholm. He then drove her to his lair 350 miles away.

Prosecutors said the man planned to keep the woman locked in the dungeon for years.

But he panicked when she was reported missing and drove her to a nearby police station, and was then arrested.