Glad they were found but I don't understand how they never tried to escape. Sad that the girl's mom died waiting on her to return.
Extraordinary story. And what a bizzare 911 call! Amazing ending as it is, this is not unique as it happens quite a bit..ironically, Jaycee Duggard also had 2 kids with her kidnapper. There was also Shawn Hornbeck who was kidnapped as a young boy who became the pedophile's sex slave for years into his his teens, until he was miraculously rescued. Many of our missing (kidnapped) kids are actually alive and sold into sex slavery...yes in the U.S.
Of course they tried. Do you think the were there willingly? Did you read Dugards story? Missing for 18 years. Tells you a lot about mental manipulation, such as threats to kill their family etc, to make them stay.
I was thinking about that. The little girl looks to 6 or 7 years old but her mom was kidnapped 10 years ago,so it has to be the kidnapper's baby. I know she had to take the baby to doctors visits,somebody should've been tipped off.
When you ponder what these girls had endure at the mercy of those 3 lecherous brothers for 10 years,.........It helps you will understand the continual brutality they will face in Ohio state prison......Veteran prison inmates doing life will take their crime personal because they too have sisters and daughters on the outside....As does the warden and his staff who will decide whether protective custody should be granted .......One of the brothers, Ariel, the home owner wrote on face-book that he was living in heaven,......well now, there will be hell to pay..........
Baby likely born at home, like Jaycee's were. She, nor her kids ever saw a doctor, she said. In fact, the only way they got rescued was because 2 female cops noticed the young girls had vacant stares and wouldn't look at them in a routine situation with their (kidnapper) father.
kind of makes you feel warm & fuzzy, knowing chivalry is not dead. These guys don't even have to know these girls and they are willing to defend their honor.
Its a very interesting read. Like bliss mentioned, obviously, if your are kept hidden away, if you get pregnant, there are no doctors visit for the kidnapped, nor her child. For obvious reasons. Also, a lot of mental and emotional abuse on top of clearly physical abuse, withe treats etc towards the kids and other family member. The Dugard story is a very good read, sad
This is straight out of a horror movie Wow, I smell a HUGE LAWSUIT! Cleveland kidnapping house of horrors: Neighbors reported seeing naked women crawling on leashes, a woman with a baby pounding on a window for help ... but cops walked away 3 times http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/cleveland-kidnap-house-horrors-article-1.1337965 Neighbors in the West Cleveland neighborhood where three women were rescued after a decade of imprisonment said they had called police 3 times to report strange behavior at the house, but cops never went inside and never followed up. What the neighbors saw was terrifying and dehumanizing: Naked women on dog leashes, crawling in the dirt. A lady clutching an infant and pounding on a window for help. Yet the gut-wrenching reports couldn’t persuade the Cleveland cops to go inside the rundown house — where three women kidnapped between 2002 and 2004 were held hostage by the vile homeowner, officials said. Police banged on the door of the two-story home three times between 2004 and 2011, but never followed up or uncovered the continuing nightmare on Seymour Ave., according to neighbors and authorities. The hostages were likely on the other side of the screen door on the wooden porch each time the cops arrived, authorities said. “They didn’t take it seriously,” said Elsie Cintron, who lived three doors down from the ramshackle residence where the three victims finally broke free Monday evening. The good news of the women’s unlikely flight to freedom was undercut by questions about how authorities failed to find three missing women living under their noses — especially after repeated calls from neighbors. Cleveland police insisted Tuesday night that “only two calls for service from police are shown at that address.” One call was made by the homeowner, Ariel Castro, reporting a fight in the street, and the other was related to Castro and his duties as a bus driver, officials said. But neighbors told a different story. On one occasion in the spring of 2012, four local senior citizens called police — and waited two hours in vain for authorities to appear at the home of Ariel Castro, 52, a local bus driver. Neighbor Israel Lugo, 39, recounted how his sister spotted the desperate woman with the baby banging on the upstairs window in November 2011. He called police after his shaken sibling shared the chilling tale. “They knocked on the door a good 20 times,” said Lugo, a local contractor. “There was no answer, so they left.” Cintron said her daughter spied a naked woman crawling through the backyard several years ago, yet cops turned up nothing unusual at the home. The quartet of elderly women spied three naked women with dog chains and leashes around their necks in the backyard of Castro’s home, Lugo said. Three men were with the women, who called the police. “Cops never showed up,” Lugo said. In January 2004, cops first visited the house when bus driver Castro was accused of leaving a child aboard his vehicle. But nobody answered the door at that time, and no charges were ever filed. Jannette Gomez, who lives on the block, said she was second-guessing everything since the hostage trio emerged from the home. “Thank God they’re out of there,” said Gomez, who moved into the area 40 years ago. “But I have to think, ‘Oh, my God, what if we had been nosy?’” Juan Perez, 27, lives two doors down and said he’s known Ariel Castro for 22 years. “I can’t lie: I feel a little guilt,” he said. “I should have spotted it. I’m all torn up. He had the perfect mask to hide that monster.” ********** Well here's to old folk nosy neighbors who got it right.
now THAT's bad policing it's like too bad to be true...unless it was in Detroit that police force is no bueno
^^ That's some fucked up shit right there. Fuck the Cleveland Police in that area. Hope they get sued crazy style.