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UNITED STATES: Missing Cleveland Ariel Castro "never get out of jail"

 

The verdict is, Thursday, August 1 in Chicago. Ariel Castro, accused of having kidnapped and raped three young women for a decade, was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of early release e, over a thousand years of detention. Judge Michael Russo announced: "Castro will never leave prison."

The former bus driver of 53 years pleaded guilty on August 26 of 937 counts, under an agreement with the judge, in order to escape the death penalty.

At the opening of the hearing, Castro has announced plans to "apologize" for having kidnapped and held captive three young women, then stating: "I'm not a monster, I 'm sick. " He said he was "the victim of an addiction," explaining that even "most of the time, the sex was consensual" by inmates. "We wanted to avoid developing the obscene details ... This is why Castro agreed to life in prison without trial," said the hearing & rsquo , defense attorney, Craig Weintraub.

Treated as "prisoners of war"

The absence of PROCESA allowed victims do not have to testify, but the prosecution gave details of the torture they suffered. During the hearing, including many details have been revealed through the diary of one of the victims.

This newspaper true testimony ordeal of inmates, victims described the day: "trapped in the dark, fearing future abuse, dreaming one day to escape and return to his family, chained to the wall, treated as a prisoner of war ... hunted like an animal. "

Attorney Timothy McGinty, responsible for the charges, has brought new elements to the detention of victims of Ariel Castro. "It made them believe that their lives were in his hands, threatened them with death if they did not meet each of its applications," he said.

It was also specified that Castro had his victims chained by the ankles, and served them one meal a day. Whenever Michelle Knight fell pregnant, her torturer the starved and beat her, forcing her to abort and 4 times. On 25 December 2006, he forced the woman to deliver another of his victims, Amanda Berry. Under threat, Michelle Knight was to ensure the safety and viability of the baby.

Ariel Castro ensures not have found any other way than to voluntarily leave the door open to let his victims a chance to escape.

These years of captivity "seemed to be an eternity"

The three victims, Michelle Knight (32), Amanda Berry (27) and Gina Dejesus (23 years), had said after the agreement between Ariel Castro and the judge, be relieved to know that the bus driver would spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Michelle Knight, testified at the hearing, said he cried every night during his years of captivity that seemed "to be an eternity." She said she spent eleven years in hell, and now hell Castro had only just begun.

Former school bus driver was arrested on May 6 when his captives, Amanda Berry, managed to escape from the house where she was held with the other two young women. They were removed successively in 2002, 2003 and 2004. With them also lived the daughter of Amanda Berry, Jocelyn, six years. DNA tests have confirmed that Castro was her father.

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