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OhioChick

(23,218 posts)
Mon May 6, 2013, 07:42 PM May 2013

Missing teens Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus found alive (Cleveland)

Source: Newsnet5

CLEVELAND - Missing Cleveland teenagers Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus have been found, police say.

Cleveland police dispatch told NewsChannel5 that officers at the scene of 2210 Seymour Avenue said Berry and DeJesus are there. The families of both are at MetroHealth Medical Center waiting for the women to arrive.

“I heard screaming… And I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside,” said Charles, a neighbor would found the women. “I go on the porch and she said ‘Help me get out. I’ve been here a long time.’ I figure it was domestic violence dispute. ”

“She comes out with a little girl and says ‘Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry’… When she told me, it didn’t register.”




Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/Cleveland-police-dispatch-Missing-teens-Amanda-Berry-and-Gina-DeJesus-found-alive



Berry, DeJesus found alive, police source confirms

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/tv_station_reports_berry_dejes.html

This is late breaking news here in Cleveland on all local channels. These girls were abducted 10+ years ago.
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Missing teens Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus found alive (Cleveland) (Original Post) OhioChick May 2013 OP
Currently watching this on Cleveland's NBC affiliate station Cirque du So-What May 2013 #1
Holy crap--looks like they found lots of kids. nt msanthrope May 2013 #2
Be still, my heart. babylonsister May 2013 #3
I too never heard about it. How horrible it's been so long. How wonderful it's now over. snagglepuss May 2013 #6
People in Cleveland know these girls! Just Saying May 2013 #4
OMG i used to live over there and remember when they were missing leftyohiolib May 2013 #23
Wow, that's great. Hope these girls can recover. Shrike47 May 2013 #5
That's fantastic!!! Beacool May 2013 #7
Post removed Post removed May 2013 #60
You don't believe in God? Beacool May 2013 #63
Well now. MynameisBlarney May 2013 #64
I like Charles. He ate ribs and listened to salsa with that dude. PeaceNikki May 2013 #8
Charles is a hero and he has a great personality! He should get a PR person. Walk away May 2013 #20
Exactly! Thank you Charles!!! Paulie May 2013 #37
He kicked in that door not knowing what would happen. n/t ellisonz May 2013 #39
Of course he didn't look like a hero. Hayabusa May 2013 #54
More here. proverbialwisdom May 2013 #59
listen to his call azmom May 2013 #66
I can't believe he had to argue with the dispatcher to get them to send a cop! Walk away May 2013 #75
That video is priceless! corkhead May 2013 #22
Wonderful news for the families cosmicone May 2013 #9
A picture of the two girls here and a story where they were assumed dead: freshwest May 2013 #10
This is marvelous news for the families!!!! chillfactor May 2013 #11
Wow!!! LeftInTX May 2013 #12
And also found in the house a third woman named Michelle Knight, missing since 2000 when she was 20. Tx4obama May 2013 #13
Oh lord, a collector? Shrike47 May 2013 #14
Isn't Seymour just a few streets away from the street where the girls were last seen? bigworld May 2013 #15
Gina and Amanda went missing in same area... Just Saying May 2013 #17
yea seymor is closer to downtown leftyohiolib May 2013 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author bigworld May 2013 #16
Did you listen to the video? Baitball Blogger May 2013 #18
A neighbor who's house they ran to was just on AC360, apparantly there was a 3 year old baby with Turborama May 2013 #19
Sylvia Browne does it again! Archae May 2013 #21
I read something about her not too long ago. leftyladyfrommo May 2013 #55
Sylvia Browne also said Elizabeth Smart was dead Bryn May 2013 #62
A 2004 article written by the suspect in custody... Tom Ripley May 2013 #25
Wow - is that really the guy in custody? nt pkdu May 2013 #29
It appears to be the same person Tom Ripley May 2013 #30
No, apparently the person who wrote the article is suspect's son. LisaL May 2013 #40
You are right; that has been cleared up Tom Ripley May 2013 #45
Did he interview her mother after the kidnapping? Renew Deal May 2013 #32
written by his son riverwalker May 2013 #33
Thanks for the clarification! Tom Ripley May 2013 #36
This is disgusting/ Three Castro brothers arrested Catherina May 2013 #38
HUGE Cleveland news . . . 3 people have been arrested. HughBeaumont May 2013 #26
Amanda Berry's mom interview after the kidnapping... rainbow4321 May 2013 #27
I could hardly believe what came out frogmarch May 2013 #28
He said that on air? Has the man no decency or common sense at all? muriel_volestrangler May 2013 #41
The sad truth is that... NancyDL May 2013 #43
She was only 19 when abducted, according to the latest news reports. SunSeeker May 2013 #50
I heard that too. I can't believe he said that. SunSeeker May 2013 #49
I also heard this and thought that was very uncalled for. LisaL May 2013 #70
My God -- we hardly EVER hear that these people are found alive! gateley May 2013 #31
Sounds like the girl from Reno who was kidnapped and held kestrel91316 May 2013 #34
Jaycee Lee Dugard Gormy Cuss May 2013 #35
She's the one. She has handled her situation with maturity and grace. kestrel91316 May 2013 #68
Kidnapped after her shift at Burger King and saved by a man eating his McDonald's outside jakeXT May 2013 #42
CNN just had a doctor from the hospital say only 4 were brought in. SunSeeker May 2013 #46
5 pregnancies, looks like only one child survived jakeXT May 2013 #65
OMFG. SunSeeker May 2013 #69
The girl abducted first claims there was a woman before her jakeXT May 2013 #73
This is all over UK news too dipsydoodle May 2013 #44
What kind of guns were used to kidnap them. How were they obtained? onehandle May 2013 #47
Maybe he knew them and gave them a ride, he was a bus driver. jakeXT May 2013 #48
Don't you think it's more important to understand... ChromeFoundry May 2013 #51
Kind of early to be asking Bay Boy May 2013 #52
Really? Elizabeth Smart's captor had guns. John Wayne Gacy used guns. onehandle May 2013 #53
Elizabeth Smart testified that her kidnapper used a knife. hack89 May 2013 #56
Gacy strangled all of his victims hack89 May 2013 #57
Maybe I missed it... truebluegreen May 2013 #58
This may help: OhioChick May 2013 #61
here is charles 911 call azmom May 2013 #67
Everything We Know About Cleveland Kidnapping Suspect Ariel Castro jakeXT May 2013 #71
Amazing! VA_Jill May 2013 #72
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight megablog: Ongoing updates jakeXT May 2013 #74

Cirque du So-What

(25,812 posts)
1. Currently watching this on Cleveland's NBC affiliate station
Mon May 6, 2013, 07:53 PM
May 2013

They're covering it non-stop. I hope this provides an opportunity to bust open a human-trafficking ring.

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
4. People in Cleveland know these girls!
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:03 PM
May 2013

Their families tried to find them all along and they would be on the news on birthdays and some holidays. This is amazing!

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
7. That's fantastic!!!
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:08 PM
May 2013

I don't remember the stories of their disappearances, but that they were found alive 10 years later is great news. Blessings to both of them.

Response to Beacool (Reply #7)

MynameisBlarney

(2,979 posts)
64. Well now.
Tue May 7, 2013, 12:59 PM
May 2013

That was pretty fucking rude.
No need to be an asshole now is there?

Keep that shit up and you will see the Banhammer.

PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
8. I like Charles. He ate ribs and listened to salsa with that dude.
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:14 PM
May 2013

Be sure to watch the video in the first link. Charles saved those girls. Charles is awesome.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
20. Charles is a hero and he has a great personality! He should get a PR person.
Mon May 6, 2013, 09:09 PM
May 2013

When he did the bit about a little white girl must be in big trouble if she ran to a black man it was so perfect. If you read the comments underneath the article all the locals were thanking Almighty God for saving the women. No mention of Charles. One poster acknowledged Charles saved them... even though he didn't "look" like a hero. What a bunch of rubes!

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
75. I can't believe he had to argue with the dispatcher to get them to send a cop!
Tue May 7, 2013, 11:09 PM
May 2013

The police are looking pretty bad about this whole thing.

Charles? He should have his own cable show! I love him!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
10. A picture of the two girls here and a story where they were assumed dead:
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:17 PM
May 2013


That is from the newstory. This is from a blog where they were assumed dead in 2009:



http://mydeathspace.com/vb/showthread.php?14452-Amanda-Berry-Georgina-DeJesus-Ashley-Summers-missing-from-same-neighborhood

This is great news for their folks and friends. I hope they get all the help they need to recover.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
13. And also found in the house a third woman named Michelle Knight, missing since 2000 when she was 20.
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:37 PM
May 2013

How awful!

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
17. Gina and Amanda went missing in same area...
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:59 PM
May 2013

I'm not sure about 3rd girl, but the place on Seymour isn't that close. Same side of town but they disappeared around W 110th and Lorain and found near W 34th and Clark (a bit SOuth and east
of Lorain Rd I think)

Response to OhioChick (Original post)

Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
18. Did you listen to the video?
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:59 PM
May 2013

The rescuer said, I knew something was wrong when a pretty little white girl ran into a black man's arms. I said, there's something wrong here.

Turborama

(22,109 posts)
19. A neighbor who's house they ran to was just on AC360, apparantly there was a 3 year old baby with
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:59 PM
May 2013

Last edited Mon May 6, 2013, 09:55 PM - Edit history (1)

them. And something about a 9 year old, too. They were all in a really bad condition, apparently.

What a great escape story, but one dreads to think what horrors have they been through.

On edit: I was on my phone and didn't see who posted the OP. Great to see you! How's it going?

Archae

(46,262 posts)
21. Sylvia Browne does it again!
Mon May 6, 2013, 09:13 PM
May 2013

Sylvia Browne is the "psychic" (who has a batting average of zero, BTW,) who told Shawn Hornbeck's parents he was lying dead in a woods.

Hornbeck was alive and being held captive by a pervert.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/01/psychic-told-parents-that-son-was-dead.html

Well, Browne said to Amanda Berry's relatives that they would find Amanda Perry's body near water.
Whoops!

leftyladyfrommo

(18,816 posts)
55. I read something about her not too long ago.
Tue May 7, 2013, 11:02 AM
May 2013

It was in a book by some journalist who said that off cameral and out of the limelight that she is just awful and a horrible fake.

She's made a lot of money.

Bryn

(3,621 posts)
62. Sylvia Browne also said Elizabeth Smart was dead
Tue May 7, 2013, 12:51 PM
May 2013

I saw her on Montel show long while back when she said it. Oooops!

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
25. A 2004 article written by the suspect in custody...
Mon May 6, 2013, 09:52 PM
May 2013

Gina DeJesus’ disappearance has changed her neighborhood
by Ariel Castro

(Plain Press, June 2004) Since April 2, 2004 , the day 14-year-old Gina DeJesus was last seen on her way home from Wilbur Wright Middle School , neighborhood residents have been taken by an overwhelming need for caution. Parents are more strictly enforcing curfews, encouraging their children to walk in groups, or driving them to and from school when they had previously walked alone.

“You can tell the difference,” DeJesus’ mother, Nancy Ruiz said. “People are watching out for each other’s kids. It’s a shame that a tragedy had to happen for me to really know my neighbors. Bless their hearts, they’ve been great.”

On Cleveland ’s west side, it is difficult to go any length of time without seeing Gina’s picture on telephone poles, in windows, or on cars along the busy streets.

“People are really looking out for my daughter,” Ruiz said.

For seven weeks, Gina’s family has been organizing searches, holding prayer vigils, posting fliers and calling press conferences. Despite the many tips and rumors that have been circulating in the neighborhood, there has been no sign of her.

One thing is for certain, however. Almost everyone feels a connection with the family, and Gina’s disappearance has the whole area talking.

“It’s traumatized a lot of people,” Bob Zak, Safety Coordinator of the Westown Community Development Corporation, said. “People are suspicious of everyone. Kids, parents, and grandparents are afraid.”

The organization serves Cleveland ’s Ward 19, which stretches from West Boulevard to West 134th Street .

Parents and relatives waiting for their children as school let out at Wilbur Wright recently expressed concern about the number of sex offenders living and working in the area.

“I really believe there needs to be more security,” Vaneetha Smith said as she waited for her niece outside Wilbur Wright Middle School at the end of the day. “We have too many kidnappings, and they should crack down on all the sex offenders in the area.”

Luis Perez echoed Smith’s concerns as he waited for his niece at the school.

“I think the neighborhood is pretty bad,” he said. “You have to be aware of some people out there.”

The Ohio Electronic Sex Offender Registration and Notification (eSORN) database lists 133 sex offenders living or working in Gina’s immediate zip code. Many residents of the area, however, cannot use the database, as they do not have access to the Internet at home.

“I have been here almost four years and I have been notified of only one sex offender,” Ruiz said. “And he lives only about 1,000 feet away from here.”

Ohio law prohibits sex offenders who are required to register from establishing their residence within 1,000 feet of school buildings.

“There is no enforcing the laws because they still live right next to the schools and the bus stops,” Ruiz said. She believes the process of registering sex offenders is essentially a waste of time.

At a Ward 19 crime watch meeting, one of ten monthly, residents describe the area as a multi-ethnic community where people work and try to keep their housing up to par. They feel the disappearance of Amanda Berry on April 21, 2003 was a wake-up call, but Gina’s case really caught everyone’s attention.

Many residents believe the schools and the city have more work to do to help out.

“There is not enough supervision at the schools and when the kids get out, they still run through the streets,” Smith said. “They say that once they leave the school premises, the school is not responsible for them. But until they reach their house, I believe they are. They should be more concerned with their safety.”

“The school is supposed to be a safe place,” Perez said. “They need more police around the schools, surrounding the area. Without that, it’s just going to keep on going and there will be more innocent people getting hurt.”

Isaac Rodriguez has seen some changes happen at Wilbur Wright.

“There are more security guards at the school now,” the father of two middle school students said. “They have been having assemblies and talking to the kids about the danger.”

“When you send your kids out to school now”, Smith said, “you don’t know if they are going to make it home or not. From West 105th to [West 110th], anything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.”

Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force.

“The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the scene of every crime as they occur, Zak reports that residents are getting responses to calls “one, two, and four hours later.”

Cuts in the police force are not the only budget changes that are directly affecting residents. The Cleveland Municipal School District is also mulling how it will eliminate its projected $100 million budget deficit. Among the items cut will be purchased services, employee overtime, supplemental pay, textbooks, school staff and student transportation.

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
30. It appears to be the same person
Mon May 6, 2013, 10:42 PM
May 2013

Over at Reddit, they have posted his Facebook page...and he is friends with Ms De Jesus's brother.
Creepy bastard.

LisaL

(44,962 posts)
40. No, apparently the person who wrote the article is suspect's son.
Tue May 7, 2013, 01:41 AM
May 2013

Suspect was a bus driver. He wasn't into writing articles.

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
45. You are right; that has been cleared up
Tue May 7, 2013, 04:38 AM
May 2013

Reports are that two uncles have been arrested in addition to the author's father.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
33. written by his son
Mon May 6, 2013, 10:50 PM
May 2013

Sara Shookman?@SaraShookman
No. Ariel is Anthony's first name as well. Goes by Anthony. “@brianstelter: @SaraShookman so his son wrote it, but it was published under...

Josh MarshallVerified account?@joshtpm3m
@SaraShookman You've confirmed that the son of the suspect is the author of the 2004 article?

Sara Shookman?@SaraShookman1h
I'm talking to Anthony Castro right now, the son of Ariel Castro. While a BGSU student, he wrote this in 2004. pic.twitter.com/4z8Zx4c73u

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
38. This is disgusting/ Three Castro brothers arrested
Tue May 7, 2013, 12:47 AM
May 2013

ages 54, 52 and 50.


Police have a man, 52, identified as Ariel Castro, and two of his brothers, in custody in connection with the case.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/who-were-the-three-women-set-free-from-captivity-in-cleveland/story-fnd134gw-1226636654710

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
26. HUGE Cleveland news . . . 3 people have been arrested.
Mon May 6, 2013, 10:13 PM
May 2013

Unbelievable that this has a happy ending . . . so glad this turned out OK, except Amanda's mom died in 2006 of heart failure.

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
27. Amanda Berry's mom interview after the kidnapping...
Mon May 6, 2013, 10:17 PM
May 2013

Poor lady...so sad.



http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2013/02/amanda_berrys_mother_louwana_m.html


She begged the media for more coverage, and we let her down.

She called me, angry, the day she saw the TV news offer a reward for a missing dog.

“What about my Mandy?” she bellowed. She called when CNN covered the woman missing in Aruba.

“How come she gets so much publicity?” she cried.

frogmarch

(12,145 posts)
28. I could hardly believe what came out
Mon May 6, 2013, 10:29 PM
May 2013

of John Walsh's mouth on CNN (Anderson Cooper show). Walsh said he hoped that the older girl who was taken wasn’t an accomplice, that after the kidnapper took her, she didn't later help him take the other girls. OMG, wtf.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
41. He said that on air? Has the man no decency or common sense at all?
Tue May 7, 2013, 01:56 AM
May 2013

What the fuck would a relative or friend of Knight have thought? She's been missing for over a decade, they have the unbelievable joy of hearing she's alive, and the shithead is wondering if she's a kidnapper? How the fuck could anyone shit all over a story with literal victim blaming like that? Let alone someone who's broadcast on the subject for years?

NancyDL

(140 posts)
43. The sad truth is that...
Tue May 7, 2013, 04:13 AM
May 2013

...the police probably never looked for the older woman because she was 21 when she went missing. They barely looked for the others. It was the families that kept the girls on people's minds.

SunSeeker

(51,376 posts)
49. I heard that too. I can't believe he said that.
Tue May 7, 2013, 10:04 AM
May 2013

There is absolutely no evidence of that and it is so hurtful to the girl and her family.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
34. Sounds like the girl from Reno who was kidnapped and held
Mon May 6, 2013, 10:57 PM
May 2013

by that guy and his wife in NorCal as a sex slave for years, had a couple of daughters, and was eventually rescued. I forget her name.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
35. Jaycee Lee Dugard
Mon May 6, 2013, 11:20 PM
May 2013

recovered in rural Contra Costa county.

Her recovery seemed like a fluke, but with these women having a similar story...

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
42. Kidnapped after her shift at Burger King and saved by a man eating his McDonald's outside
Tue May 7, 2013, 03:30 AM
May 2013

Do we know how many people were inside ? Only Amanda seems to have a child.

SunSeeker

(51,376 posts)
46. CNN just had a doctor from the hospital say only 4 were brought in.
Tue May 7, 2013, 04:55 AM
May 2013

He said privacy laws kept him from revealing their ages. Well, we know 3 are the women, so the 4th patient must be the young child Amanda Berry had with her.

SunSeeker

(51,376 posts)
69. OMFG.
Tue May 7, 2013, 02:21 PM
May 2013

Well, add murder charges to the long list of horrific crimes this man (and I use that term loosely) will be tried for.

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
73. The girl abducted first claims there was a woman before her
Tue May 7, 2013, 03:19 PM
May 2013
A source further noted that Knight told police that there was another woman in the home when she got there, but one day she woke up and the woman was gone. There is writing on the wall in the basement which includes the name of a female and says, “Rest In Peace,” but police do not know if that is related to the case at this time.

http://fox8.com/2013/05/07/women-may-have-been-pregnant-multiple-times/



Or it was his wife

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Before Ariel Castro was accused of holding three women captive for at least a decade, he was accused of attacking his former wife, Grimilda Figueroa.

Figueroa suffered two broken noses, broken ribs, a knocked-out tooth, a blood clot on the brain and two dislocated shoulders, according to a 2005 filing in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court. Her attorney requested that a judge “keep (Castro) from threatening to kill (Figueroa).’’

Attorney Robert Ferreri said Figueroa “has full custody with no visitation for (Castro). Nevertheless, (Castro) frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from mother.’’
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/ariel_castro_suspect_in_clevel.html

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
47. What kind of guns were used to kidnap them. How were they obtained?
Tue May 7, 2013, 07:16 AM
May 2013

What assistance did he receive from the McVeigh gun show types online to continue to hold them?

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
48. Maybe he knew them and gave them a ride, he was a bus driver.
Tue May 7, 2013, 08:29 AM
May 2013

Both girls spent their money on other things, one paid for a phone call, the other liked to walk and buy food instead of taking the bus.


Brian Cummins, a councilman who represents the area where the women were found, identified the suspect in whose home the women were found as Ariel Castro. His uncle, Julian Castro, told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that his family had grown up in the same west Cleveland neighborhood and knew the DeJesus family.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/06/us/ohio-missing-women-found/index.html

ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)
51. Don't you think it's more important to understand...
Tue May 7, 2013, 10:21 AM
May 2013

...how this guy was able to be employed as a school bus driver for all these years?
A bus full of children, with this guy at the helm, seems to be a greater threat than the flames you are attempting to fan.
I understand your vendetta against guns... but there are much greater evils in this world than guns. Banning guns does not cure a sick mind.

I remember how disturbing this news was when they went missing so many years ago.
For years, one could not enter a store or drive down any main road without seeing the posted "Missing" signs.
I wish the best for these kids and their families as they begin to heal from this tragedy.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
53. Really? Elizabeth Smart's captor had guns. John Wayne Gacy used guns.
Tue May 7, 2013, 10:42 AM
May 2013

Last edited Tue May 7, 2013, 12:11 PM - Edit history (1)

But, you're the expert.

Guns are the 'tool' of choice for nutcases and the NRAKlan 2.0, alike.

(I am told that a gungeoneer has popped up to defend serial killers and child rapists by not correctly reading my post. Figures. Ignore makes DU better.)

hack89

(39,171 posts)
56. Elizabeth Smart testified that her kidnapper used a knife.
Tue May 7, 2013, 11:46 AM
May 2013
"placed his hand on my chest and then put the knife up to my neck. He told me to get up quietly and if I didn't then he would kill me and my family. He was whispering, but it was still loud enough it could wake someone. He was dressed in sweats, sweatshirt, stocking cap, tennis shoes."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Smart_kidnapping

hack89

(39,171 posts)
57. Gacy strangled all of his victims
Tue May 7, 2013, 11:55 AM
May 2013

there are no accounts of him using a gun. The only thing they found in his house was a 6mm Brevettata starter pistol which cannot fire bullets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
71. Everything We Know About Cleveland Kidnapping Suspect Ariel Castro
Tue May 7, 2013, 02:38 PM
May 2013
...

One of the women held in the house apparently knew Castro. A local Cleveland news station is reporting that Castro was related to Gina DeJesus' best friend, and might have been the friend's father. DeJesus went missing when she was 14 years old. She was walking home from school.

Castro attended at least two vigils for the missing girls.

He's active on Facebook. This page has been identified as belonging to Castro. It seems pretty normal at first glance — he posts about his grandchildren and other family members.

A woman who appears to be Castro's daughter is serving a 25-year prison sentence. Emily Castro was convicted in 2008 of attempted murder for slashing her 11-month-old daughter's throat. She was 20 at the time of her conviction, and her brother said she's mentally ill. Her daughter has since made a full recovery.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-we-know-about-ariel-castro-2013-5

VA_Jill

(9,854 posts)
72. Amazing!
Tue May 7, 2013, 02:48 PM
May 2013

At first it seems like another Jaycee Lee Dugard story, but I'm guessing there's more to it. Jaycee's captor kept her for himself, but the fact that there were three women in the house in this case speaks more to human trafficking. Or maybe Castro just thought his brothers should have someone too? In any case, I hope he never sees the light of day again!

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