Posted on 05/08/2013 4:28:45 PM PDT by bimboeruption
Gina DeJesus, 23, Michelle Knight, 30, and Amanda Berry, 26 , and her six-year-old daughter fled the house in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ariel Castro, 52, and his two brothers have been arrested.
Frantic Amanda choked back tears as she told police “I’m free” after she escaped the dungeon.
Amanda fled the hell-hole thanks to a hero neighbour before her dramatic 911 call ended the victims’ ordeal .
It had been feared that Amanda and the other captives – Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight – had been murdered.
After escaping the house on Monday just three miles from where they each went missing between 2002 and 2004, they named their captor as 52-year-old Ariel Castro, who tonight was in custody with his two brothers.
The women, aged between 14 and 22 when they disappeared, spent today in hospital before being given the all-clear by doctors and returning to their overwhelmed families.
Amanda, now 26, was joined by her six-year-old daughter – who she gave birth to during the years in the dungeon – as she hugged her weeping relatives.
Chilling details began to emerge tonight of how the victims were held captive in a basement dungeon.
Police sources said suspect Ariel Castro kept Michelle, Amanda and Gina tied up with chains and tape at the home in Cleveland, Ohio.
The insider said they were kept in different rooms and were possibly untied at different times.
Officers also revealed the three women had “multiple” pregnancies.
There was evidence of as many as five children being born while the women were held hostage.
One of the victims suffered as many as three miscarriages because she was so malnourished.
Reports also told how the women were beaten so badly they lost other babies.
Police were today seen examining dug up areas in the back garden.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
You think he had them all out and about the house at once ? They were pretty much chained in separate rooms for entirety. When not chained they were beaten. Screams were heard and no one did anything. Doors were left open as tricks, followed by beatings.
What you can’t get your head around is the evil ‘genius’ involved, because you haven’t dealt with it. This is a guy who punched a woman in the stomach enough to cause five miscarriages.
You’ve just decided to ‘pick up’ some things about the story without reading what actually happened. Then you make a certain pronouncement. Very intelligent.
Yeah, house isn’t dilapidated could use some paint but built in early 1900’s with REAL 2x4’s and serious plaster and lathe. They said that he had the inside of the windows boarded up, leaving little chance for them to break out.
Homes built in tight neighborhoods in the early part of the last century where almost sound proof. With the windows closed, it would be difficult to hear anything going on in this home.
If you have ever been in a 100 year old homes cellar in a city like Cleveland, they are pretty much sound proof, particularly when they have several rooms as this one likely did. A home that age would have had a basement of between 600 - 1200 SQ FT. It is well above sea level and more than likely high and dry. It is probably brick, block and tile finished with a coal bin, boiler/furnace room as well as a root cellar. Most would have doors and a few dollars worth of chain and bolts with a ball gag and you could keep someone locked up indefinitely, as long as you don’t forget to lock everyone up.
It is said that he would leave them untied and a door open to test them. If they tried to get out he would beet them. They where rarely together. They where kept separated and after a period of time, they became docile.
I don’t know much about that stuff, but my husband thinks it was Photoshopped...just another ploy by the media to shape thinking concerning immigration. ? I enlarged the one with both flags...it does appear there is only one flag pole coming from the wall - but 2 flags attached to it.
Amanda Berry was just shy of 17 when she was taken. Gina Dejesus was 14. Michele Knight was 20 and from reports “retarded.” The first two weren’t “women” when they were kidnapped.
Just how is one supposed to react in these situations, especially a teenager or one who is a child mentally?
Fear is a strong motivator for a captor and captive.
Some reports state that the victims were kept in separate rooms throughout much of the last decade and allowed limited communication.
It’s always so much easier to view things like this from an outside, objective perspective. We aren’t in the situation, we aren’t beaten, raped, terrorized. We think we know how we’d react.
I remember when Shawn Hornbeck (and Elizabeth Smart and Steven Stayner and others) was rescued/escaped and the same questions were raised.
I think it makes more sense than all the bravado from people who have never been in that situation.
Actually I did hear Charlie say that he went over to help another guy get the girl out. But we never saw the other guy. Charlie did say “we” kicked a hole or some such in the bottom of the door.
A technical distinction without a difference...at least in this case.
The two other brothers had nothing to do with this. This is what prosecutors are saying. No prosecution for them...at this point at least
In photo number three you can just see the bottom of the Puerto Rican flag sticking out below and behind the American flag.
Yes, the three women who were kidnapped. They said that they had no contact with the other two brothers.
The three girls suffered horrific, traumatic abuse:
New report details shocking life in Cleveland home where the three women were held captive for about 10 years
Michelle Knight, now 32, says how she saved the life of Amanda Berry’s newborn daughter by resuscitating her after she was born
She says that her alleged abductor, Ariel Castro, threatened to kill Amanda if her baby died
Reports say that Castro played cruel games with the girls by pretending to go out, but instead lie in wait to see if they would try to leave
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321647/Cleveland-kidnapping-Michelle-Knight-reveals-gave-CPR-Amanda-Berrys-baby-save-lives.html#ixzz2SlFFQjbn
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So true. I’ve read countless articles on this since Monday night and very little is substantiated by evidence. So many initial reports are loaded with unfactual information it’s difficult to find the truth.
I imagine it will be months before all the factual information is known and the bogus stuff is found to be bogus.
Far too often, misinformation and blatantly false information, is out there forever even when it’s debunked.
Two of the brothers are hopeless drunks who were released because the kidnapped women knew nothing about them. In other words, they were never involved in this.
Still wanna donate all three lead injections?
First I've heard of the brothers living in the house. Did you get that from a news source, or where?
I'll bet that a breeze flapped it over the other side of the Puerto Rican flag before that shot was taken.
I think people are seeing what they want to see in these pictures. In two of the shots you can clearly make out the bottom of one flag protruding from the bottom of the one facing the camera.
Jaycee Dugard, who was kept imprisoned for almost 20 years, was a perfect example of this. She was told that no one was looking for her, and in the absence of any competing information, had a hard time not believing it. But she DID think of her mother, quite often, and believed that she must be looking for her. She was kept, in fairly good condition, except for the sexual abuse and rape, of course, by the man and woman who took her. That must have been quite different from the horrible conditions in which these girls were kept, while also being physically and mentally abused.
I have no doubt about that.
I think of them as survivors. Regardless of all the misinformation, since we don’t know anything much yet and the sensationalistic reporting without evidence, what they endured as captives from the time they were teens is gutwrenching.
"City prosecutor Victor Perez said like the Castro's he was from Puerto Rico and added: 'I want everyone to know that the acts of the defendant is not a reflection of the Puerto Rican community here and in Puerto Rico.'"
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