Briton with dungeon who plotted to kidnap and eat child jailed in US

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34. May 14 Facebook post by PROTECT.ORG

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PROTECT

May 14, 2013

Everyone heard the story about Cleveland. But there was a *second* basement dungeon in the news the same week, and it received almost no media coverage.

While that house in Cleveland represents our collective horror at the cruelty inflicted on innocents, there was a house in Worcester, Mass., where Geoffrey Portway had built his own dungeon: a soundproofed, double-locked basement with a child-sized coffin, a steel table with restraints, an Internet connection, and butchering tools. This "Ariel Castro" was apparently caught before he abducted and killed a child.

This Worcester house represents our collective apathy and incompetence to act. It is a symbol of how easily we could rescue other children if we really cared.

Thousands of other houses of horror are KNOWN to law enforcement right now (you've seen the maps), and thousands of children could be rescued immediately. By choosing to not fully fund law enforcement to investigate the leads on the maps, our government has chosen to leave those children in peril.

Here's the ICE bulletin. See paragraph 9 if you're feeling strong:

http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSICE-79da34

And here's the story about the maps, once again:

http://www.protect.org/hero-articles/106-map-of-the-war-on-u-s-children