![]() Another neighbor, Elsie Cintron, says her daughter witnessed a similar incident, one woman crawling naked in Castro's backyard several years ago, but when she called the police "they didn't take it seriously." Lugo says the police responded to his family's calls, but left when nobody answered the door. Israel Lugo, who lives two houses down from Castro, says he, his family, and neighbors called the police on Castro three times in 20 - after his sister saw a woman and infant banging on a half-boarded-over window, again after his mom saw Castro unload an unusually large amount of McDonald's food from his school bus to the house, and once more after neighbors across the street saw three men controlling three naked young women on leashes, crawling on all fours in Castro's backyard. Police were called to Ariel Castro's house at least twice since he bought the property in 1992 - once for a domestic violence arrest in 1993, and in January 2004, when Castro, a school bus driver until recently, left a child on a bus while he went to have dinner at Wendy's, telling the kid to "lay down." But neighbors say they called the the cops more times than that. Neighbors reported naked, leashed girls in Castro's backyard Only one child, Berry's, was reported living in the house, but police sources tell Cleveland's NewsChannel5 that the women collectively had at least five miscarriages, with one woman's two or three miscarriages blamed on malnutrition.Ģ. The unverified glimpses we are getting of the decade of captivity are predictably grim, with anonymous law enforcement officials saying the women were repeatedly raped, beaten, and kept in chains for a least part of their captivity. The three women were reportedly chained, raped, and beaten Here, six new details about the Cleveland abduction nightmare:ġ. That's already clear from the frantic tone of Amanda Berry's voice when she called 911." Police say they're taking it slow with the rescued women, and meticulously searching the home of the lead suspect, Ariel Castro, 52, who was arrested Monday along with brothers Pedro, 54, and Onil, 50.īut while the police are being cautious, the media is uncovering some chilling details of the decade-long abduction and the men allegedly responsible for imprisoning three teenage girls. "But this is not the ending," says Emily Bazelon at Slate, "and surely little other than the escape will seem happy once the facts begin to flow.
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