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SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)
Thu May 9, 2013, 02:32 PM May 2013

Police: Abducted women held in different rooms, allowed outside twice in a decade

Source: Detroit Free Press

Three women found alive after a decade in captivity endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators say.

The 52-year-old former school bus driver accused of kidnapping and raping the women will make his first public appearance in court Thursday after emerging as the lone suspect.

While many questions remain about how Ariel Castro maintained such tight control over the women for so many years before one of them made a daring escape Monday, the horrors they suffered are beginning to come to light.

Police say the women were apparently bound by ropes and chains at times and were kept in different rooms. They suffered prolonged sexual and psychological abuse and had miscarriages, according to a city official briefed on the case.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20130509/NEWS06/305090062

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Police: Abducted women held in different rooms, allowed outside twice in a decade (Original Post) SpartanDem May 2013 OP
Nothing about crawling naked on leashes? That was an unexplained thing still. uppityperson May 2013 #1
I never heard anything from anyone who claimed to see that arcane1 May 2013 #2
Thank you, thought it was a neighbor who reported it, didn't realize 3rd hand uppityperson May 2013 #4
This is the closest I've seen to a direct quote, from Lugo the neighbor... arcane1 May 2013 #5
The guys own family life is very disturbing Marrah_G May 2013 #3
This is all very disturbing... GetTheRightVote May 2013 #6
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. I never heard anything from anyone who claimed to see that
Thu May 9, 2013, 02:45 PM
May 2013

Only the one neighbor claiming that some other people once told him they saw that. I don't think it ever made it past 3rd-hand hearsay

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
4. Thank you, thought it was a neighbor who reported it, didn't realize 3rd hand
Thu May 9, 2013, 02:48 PM
May 2013

So glad they got out of this awful situation.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
5. This is the closest I've seen to a direct quote, from Lugo the neighbor...
Thu May 9, 2013, 03:00 PM
May 2013

and it's not very direct at all.

"A third call came from neighborhood women who lived in an apartment building. Those women told Lugo they called police because they saw three young girls crawling on all fours naked with dog leashes around their necks. Three men were controlling them in the backyard. The women told Lugo they waited two hours but police never responded to the calls."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/07/missing-women-cleveland-brothers-arrested/2140359/

They don't even quote Lugo directly. That aspect to the story, if true, needs more verification.

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