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.
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)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)So glad they got out of this awful situation.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)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.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)His daughter is in jail for attempting to murder her own infant.
GetTheRightVote
(5,287 posts)and if not proven would seem to unreal.