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(48,121 posts) Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:48 AM Jul 2013

Cleveland kidnap, rape suspect Ariel Castro agrees to plea deal and will not go to trial

live here:

http://www.10tv.com/content/sections/video/breaking.html

Twitter breaking as well:

Cleveland kidnap, rape suspect Ariel Castro agrees to plea deal and will not go to trial - @WEWS

MORE: Man accused of holding 3 women captive in Cleveland gets life without parole plus 1,000 years:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/plea-deal-talks-under-way-ohio-kidnapping-case

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Cleveland kidnap, rape suspect Ariel Castro agrees to plea deal and will not go to trial (Original Post) The Straight Story Jul 2013 OP

Good Cirque du So-What Jul 2013 #1

Good this saves those women from having to testify. n/t tammywammy Jul 2013 #2

exactly, they have been through enough already (nt) The Straight Story Jul 2013 #5

Good. We don't need the details, and this protects the victims. Brickbat Jul 2013 #3

K; R CatWoman Jul 2013 #4

Such a chilling scenario. RedCappedBandit Jul 2013 #6

Good. femmocrat Jul 2013 #7

+1000 sounds good. LiberalAndProud Jul 2013 #8

Cirque du So-What

(25,988 posts)

1. Good

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Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:52 AM

Jul 2013

My overriding concern is sparing the victims from the additional trauma of reliving their experiences in court.

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)

2. Good this saves those women from having to testify. n/t

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Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:53 AM

Jul 2013

The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)

5. exactly, they have been through enough already (nt)

Reply to tammywammy (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 26, 2013, 11:07 AM

Jul 2013

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

3. Good. We don't need the details, and this protects the victims.

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Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:54 AM

Jul 2013

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)

4. K; R

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Fri Jul 26, 2013, 11:05 AM

Jul 2013

RedCappedBandit

(5,514 posts)

6. Such a chilling scenario.

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Fri Jul 26, 2013, 11:10 AM

Jul 2013

Just occurred to me that they would still be in captivity if not for that one woman's bravery in screaming for help.

Glad he's never going to walk free.