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Ariel Castro Update: Accused Cleveland kidnapper indicted on 329 counts, report says
CBS News ^ | June 7, 2013

Posted on 06/07/2013 4:19:41 PM PDT by Zakeet

A grand jury in Cuyahoga County, Ohio has returned a 329-count indictment against Ariel Castro, the man accused of kidnapping three women and keeping them captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade, CBS affiliate WOIO reports.

Castro was charged May 8 with rape and kidnapping after Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32, escaped from his home.

Reportedly included on the indictment was one count of aggravated murder for allegedly causing the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy. Castro was also 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, WOIO reports.

The three women disappeared between 2002 and 2004 when they were in their teens or early 20s. Prosecutors and police allege that Castro kept them captive and beat and sexually abused them.

Authorities have said the women had multiple forced miscarriages.

Also discovered in the home was a six-year-old girl, who police have said is the child of Castro and Berry.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: castro; cleveland; crime; kidnapping

Looks like this registered Democrat has some 'splaining to do.

1 posted on 06/07/2013 4:19:41 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Justice delayed is justice denied, why isn’t he already executed? It seems pretty cut & dried.


2 posted on 06/07/2013 4:24:49 PM PDT by wrencher
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To: Zakeet
One of these, properly placed, will do it just fine:


3 posted on 06/07/2013 4:31:29 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: Zakeet

If any man deserves execution this guy earned it.

I hope it doesn’t take a year to git ‘er done.


4 posted on 06/07/2013 4:31:53 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Zakeet

Reminds me of this;

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-FIFUu7bmbhJY7/dragnet_1987_the_reverend_getting_his_punishment/


5 posted on 06/07/2013 4:32:31 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave; Whenifhow

Ohio Ping


6 posted on 06/07/2013 4:40:22 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Zakeet

Okay, I can understand 139 counts of rape, one count for each rape over the years. But how do you get 155 counts of kidnapping?


7 posted on 06/07/2013 4:54:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Zakeet

Okay, I can understand 139 counts of rape, one count for each rape over the years. But how do you get 155 counts of kidnapping?


8 posted on 06/07/2013 4:54:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

I was wondering the same thing: you kidnap 3 people, but are charged with 177 counts of kidnapping? I admit my math skills are not my forte, but...that seems fuzzy to me.


9 posted on 06/07/2013 5:59:58 PM PDT by The Grammarian
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To: Venturer

I don’t want him to get the death penalty. I want him to get life without solitary. There are several benefits to this:
1. He will be killed anyway. Most likely he will be “played with” before being brutally killed. Lethal injection is too merciful.
2. The death penalty is expensive. His appeals will cost us a small fortune.
3. He will be put to death more quickly by his fellow inmates, as the death penalty process takes decades.


10 posted on 06/07/2013 6:21:01 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Zakeet

Does anyone know how this animal’s brothers could possibly be unaware of all of this? Something does not add up here.

Also, do we know if he was here legally?


11 posted on 06/07/2013 6:36:15 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: Zakeet

How could Prism miss this guy?


12 posted on 06/07/2013 6:48:11 PM PDT by gotribe (Limit The Government's Right To Bear Arms)
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To: goodwithagun

I have no trust in criminals who are imprisoned for crimes that match his own ,or would if they could.

Defense attorneys who would take the case of this animal are as bad as he is. It is they who should be imprisoned IMO.


13 posted on 06/07/2013 7:12:32 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Zakeet

So last night, some idiot runs over a tree one of the families planted.

http://www.wsmv.com/story/22515651/vandalism-at-gina-dejesus-house


14 posted on 06/07/2013 7:35:11 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Zakeet
Reportedly included on the indictment was one count of aggravated murder for allegedly causing the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy...well - uh - doesn't that imply that terminating a pregnancy is in fact killing a human being - sounds as though we're finally getting to the point of acknowledging that abortion is actually murder - only it's legal murder.......
15 posted on 06/07/2013 9:04:32 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Bigg Red
Also, do we know if he was here legally?

I believe I read that he is Puerto Rican, if so, he was here quite legally.

16 posted on 06/07/2013 10:41:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Graybeard58

I believe I read that he is Puerto Rican, if so, he was here quite legally.

^^
OK, thanks,


17 posted on 06/08/2013 6:15:22 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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