Kidnapper Ariel Castro never raised his head and did not enter a plea during his Arraignment for kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Castro was charged with 4 counts of kidnapping and 3 counts of rape. His bail was set at $8 million dollars. He lured the girls into his car one by one from the same Cleveland neighborhood. The police report stated that Castro offered each of them a ride home. He told Amanda Berry that his son worked at the same Burgher King where she worked. Gina DeJesus was friends with Castro's daughter, so he told her that he would give her a ride to meet of with Arlene Castro.
The girls were subject to horrific conditions. Michelle Knight was pregnant 5 times, hit in the stomach and starved until she miscarried. Michelle Knight was made to deliver Amanda Berry’s baby in a plastic baby pool. The girls were told that if the baby died they would die. At one point the baby stopped breathing and Knight performed CPR. The girls nor the baby received any medical attention.
The Prosecutor told the judge “Despite what the defense has asserted, the charges against Mr. Castro are based on premeditated, deliberate and depraved decisions to snatch three young ladies from Cleveland’s west side streets to be used in whatever self-gratifying, self-serving way he saw fit. Two of the victims endured this horrifying ordeal for more than a decade, the third for close to a decade, and the ordeal grew to eventually include a little girl, believed to have been born to one of the women while in captivity. Also while in captivity, they withstood repeated beatings, they were bound and restrained and sexually assaulted, basically never free to leave this residence.
Going forward these three brave young women will have to start to put the pieces of their lives back together. They are certainly strong because survived this madman for years. God be with them. Read more at www.cnn.com
The girls were subject to horrific conditions. Michelle Knight was pregnant 5 times, hit in the stomach and starved until she miscarried. Michelle Knight was made to deliver Amanda Berry’s baby in a plastic baby pool. The girls were told that if the baby died they would die. At one point the baby stopped breathing and Knight performed CPR. The girls nor the baby received any medical attention.
The Prosecutor told the judge “Despite what the defense has asserted, the charges against Mr. Castro are based on premeditated, deliberate and depraved decisions to snatch three young ladies from Cleveland’s west side streets to be used in whatever self-gratifying, self-serving way he saw fit. Two of the victims endured this horrifying ordeal for more than a decade, the third for close to a decade, and the ordeal grew to eventually include a little girl, believed to have been born to one of the women while in captivity. Also while in captivity, they withstood repeated beatings, they were bound and restrained and sexually assaulted, basically never free to leave this residence.
Going forward these three brave young women will have to start to put the pieces of their lives back together. They are certainly strong because survived this madman for years. God be with them. Read more at www.cnn.com
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