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alp227

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Fri Jun 7, 2013, 06:55 PM Jun 2013

Ariel Castro indicted on aggravated murder, rape, kidnapping charges [View all]

Source: Plain Dealer

A Cuyahoga County grand jury returned a 329-count indictment this afternoon against Ariel Castro, charging the 52-year-old Cleveland man with the kidnapping and rape of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

Castro was indicted for one act of aggravated murder – for purposely and with prior calculation and design causing the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy,said County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty.

The indictments cover only the period from August of 2002, when the first of the three women discovered in his Seymour Avenue house disappeared, until February of 2007.

Castro also was indicted on 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, three counts of felonious assault and one count of possession of criminal tools.

Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/06/ariel_castro_indicted_on_charg.html

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