![]() Both times, police showed up but never went inside, neighbours said.Īt a first press conference yesterday, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath described the women as “the ultimate definition of survival and perseverance”, but said his officers would take their inquiries slowly. One neighbour told the Associated Press a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago.Īnother heard pounding on the home's doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows. No police spokesman was available to comment on the reports. The same sources also reported that the women were beaten, and that investigators found patches of “disturbed” dirt in the property’s back yard. Last night the local TV station Channel 3 News, quoting unnamed police sources, claimed they were forced to have sex with their captors and that there may have been multiple pregnancies in the house, some of which did not reach full term. What we will learn from the women of Seymour Avenue may be slow to materialise. Georgina DeJesus vanished three months after the police came knocking. Michelle Knight went missing in 2002, Amanda Berry in April 2003 both were almost certainly in the property at the time. He was eventually interviewed by the authorities who accepted it had been an “inadvertent” mistake on his part and the case was dropped. Police came to his home but left when no one answered. Then in January 2004, he came briefly under investigation for leaving his bus at the depot after a shift with a child still inside. In 2000, Mr Castro himself called officers about a fight that had erupted outside his home. It appears that Ariel Castro and the police weren’t strangers. What exactly had happened to those women at the address – a detached house with a small garden – during all those years? How had none of them managed to break out until Monday? In a tight neighbourhood with many other Latin immigrant residents, did no one ever have any suspicions? And did the police fall down on their original investigation? All three men remained in custody, yet the questions only multiplied. Nor was it long before they had arrested not one but three men on suspicion of holding the three women captive for all those years – the owner of the house, identified as 52-year-old Ariel, a former school bus driver for the city, and his two brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, also in their fifties, who seemingly lived close by.
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