Ariel Castro Get's 1,000 Years in Prison

Ariel Castro was convicted of holding 3 women
captive in a Cleveland, Ohio house for over a decade

OHIO (CNN)- Ariel Castro was sentenced to 1,000 years, life in prison without parole for  convicted murder of Amanda Berry, human trafficking of women, and rape. He agreed to serve life in prison without excepting capital punishment of the death penalty. Castro has been charged with 977 counts of aggravated murder, and killing a baby while one of his victims were pregnant.  His original plea was not guilty and bail was set to $8 million dollars.



Castro is charged with 977 counts, including aggravated murder and holding three women captive for over a decade, and on suspicion of ending the pregnancy of one of his alleged captives.  Amanda Berry, Georgina "Gina" DeJesus," and Michelle Knight were held hostage for 10 years in Castro's house in Cleveland Ohio.  A neighbor Charles Ramsey heard a cry for help and kicked in the door to free Amanda Berry and the little girl.  A DNA test proved that Berry who had the little girl proved Castro was the father.  Ariel Castro committed suicide in prison after the life sentence verdict. 

VanishaPR's opinion: An easy escape to wrong, is just an easy pathway to Hades.





In 2003, Berry was kidnapped after she left from working at Burger King and disappeared close to her 17th birthday.  In April 2004, Gina DeJesus was taken at 14 yrs a year later after Berry was kidnapped.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Knight, 21 at the time, was one of the first captives of Castro.

Earlier this month, the three women released an open youtube video giving thanks to those who stepped-up to rescue them.  Berry stated "I want to thank everyone who has helped me and my family through this entire ordeal. Everyone who has been there to support us has been a blessing," "I'm getting stronger each day."

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Kidnapped Teens Found a Decade Later

CLEVELAND (CNN) - Ariel Castrol abducted three women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight.  Gina DeJesus was abducted because she was good friends with Castro’s daughter Arlene.  They have a two-story house on Seymour Ave.  

He was even reported to beat his wife Grimilda Figueroa after her having brain surgery.  Ariel Castrol was a driver and a musician.  The women reported to be chained in the basement of the home and then later moved upstairs of the house for nearly a decade.  

The mother Louwana Miller open the case up of a missing juvenile.  She even inquired Sylvia Brown, a renounced psychic from “The Montel Williams” show and reported, said that she would never find her daughter, only not knowing that she would her later on alive.  The mother later passed as people may of believed it was from a broken heart because of the report that she thought she would not find her daughters again.  Castrol is being held in prison in lieu of $8 million dollars.

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