WICKED MEN KIDNAPS 3 GIRLS FOR OVER 10 YEARS
By MICHAEL ZENNIE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO
PUBLISHED: 14:38 EST, 7 May 2013 | UPDATED: 16:55 EST, 7 May 2013
Ariel Castro padlocked the doors leading to his basement, his attic and his garage and never allowed his family inside, his son has exclusively revealed to MailOnline.
Chilling photographs from 2001 show a grinning Castro, who is accused of holding three women captive for a decade, standing in front of a locked door – behind which unimaginable horrors may have been unfolding in the basement.
By that point, one of his alleged victims, Michele Knight, had already been missing for a year.
In an interview with MailOnline, his son Anthony Castro, 31, has spoken of his shock at his father’s alleged crimes and revealed how Ariel Castro asked him just weeks ago whether he believed the kidnapping of Amanda Berry – one of his victims – would ever be solved.
‘If it’s true that he took her captive and forced her into having sex with him and having his child and keeping her hidden and keeping them from sunlight, he really took those girls’ lives,’ he said.
Signs: In a photograph taken in 2001, suspect Ariel Castro stands with a former girlfriend in front of a padlocked door, which led to the basement, at his home on Seymore Avenue, Cleveland
‘He doesn’t deserve to have his own life anymore. He deserves to be behind bars for the rest of her life. I’m just thankful they’re alive.’
Among his infrequent contact with his father, who separated from his mother in the 1990s, one recent conversation particularly stands out in Anthony’s mind.
In mid-April, he says, his father asked him whether he thought police would ever find Amanda Berry, who escaped the Cleveland home on Monday afternoon.
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When Anthony said he thought Berry was likely dead because she had been missing so long, Ariel responded: ‘Really? You think so?’
At that time, according to police, Berry was locked in the basement of his father’s home.
‘The house was always locked,’ remembered Anthony, who appeared visibly tired but reacted with poise throughout the interview. ‘There were places we could never go. There were locks on the basement. Locks on the attic. Locks on the garage.’
Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested with his two brothers, 54-year-old Pedro and 50-year-old Onil after Berry, now 26, dramatically escaped from the house on Monday, a decade after she vanished.
Berry was rescued from the home, along with 23-year-old Gina DeJesus, who disappeared in April 2004 at age 14, and 32-year-old Michele Knight, who vanished in 2000 when she was 20.
The women and a six-year-old girl who was born to Berry while she was in captivity were whisked away to hospital. They have now been released and are in a safe location, authorities said.
Details have started to emerge of the horrors they experienced in the house, with authorities reportedly discovering chains and tape to restrain the girls inside the home.
Police sources also told NewsChannel5 that there were multiple pregnancies among the three women but that they suffered miscarriages after they were beaten or because they were so malnourished.
The Castros’ close links to the long-running investigation have also emerged. Pedro Castro told a TV crew last July that a police forensic excavation being conducted in the neighborhood for Berry’s body was ‘a waste of time’.
Shock: Anthony Castro has said he is horrified at news his father, Ariel Castro, allegedly kidnapped three girls and held them captive at his home for a decade. Anthony’s uncles have also been arrestedMissed: Anthony said his mother moved them from Castro’s home following years of abuse
Speaking to MailOnline on Tuesday, Anthony Castro, a banker who lives in Columbus, Ohio, depicted his father as a violent, controlling man who nearly beat his mother to death in 1993 while she was recovering from brain surgery.
‘Abused’: Anthony said his father beat his mother, Nilda Figueroa, who passed away last year
Speaking to MailOnline from his apartment, which is dotted with numerous family pictures, Anthony said his father was secretive and barred him from entering certain rooms when he wasn’t around.
Anthony said he last visited his father’s home two weeks ago, though he was not invited inside. He said he never suspected that his father could be keeping three women captive in the basement.
‘The only thing I can express is a tremendous level of shock,’ he said. ‘To those girls, it’s beyond comprehension what happened to them. It’s just a nightmare. I just feel so horrible for them. Unspeakably horrible.’
Ariel’s ex-wife Grimilda ‘Nilda’ Figueroa – Anthony’s mother – moved Mr Castro and his three sisters out of Ariel’s house in 1996 after years of violent abuse.
Anthony said he now speaks with his father just a few times a year – and seldom visits his house.
‘I haven’t been at that house for longer than 20 minutes for longer than I can remember,’ he said. ‘And we’re talking since high school. Late 90s.’
Anthony said neither he nor his three sisters have had much of a relationship with Ariel Castro.
‘Having that relationship with my dad all these years when we lived in a house where there was domestic violence and I was beaten as well… we never were really close because of that and it was also something we never really talked about,’ he said.
Painful memories: Anthony, pictured looking through old family photos, said he rarely spoke to his father
Hurt: Anthony has spoken with family members and they all believe his father is capable of the crimes
‘It’s astonishing to even think about that I was so close to that. That I was physically at the house two weeks ago while that was going on, it’s a lot to grasp.’
Anthony said he has spoken with several members of his family since his father and uncles were arrested. After getting over the initial shock of the horrendous allegations, they all have accepted that Ariel was likely capable of holding the three women against their will
‘They’re all furious. They’re livid,’ he said.
Anthony said he has no idea what role his uncles could have played in the ordeal. However, he says he doesn’t yet believe that the three women were kept at Ariel’s house for the entire 10 years.
He speculated that his uncle Onil, who also owns his house and lives alone, might have been involved in keeping the women in captivity.
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CEDRIC BROOKS DIES
Brooks, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, was a flute and sax player who fostered a love of music from an early age. Playing clarinet at the Alpha Boys School led to Brooks picking up other instruments, and by the time he was in his 20′s, he was playing onstage with bands like The Vagabonds and the Granville Williams Band. In the ’60s he found commercial success after partnering up with trumpeter David Madden, and by the 1970′s he was working as a studio musician and releasing his own singles.
Brooks worked with several influential musicians of the day and eventually teamed up with drummer Count Ossie for many projects before heading out on his own again. He would later settle in the ska band the Skatalites.
Brooks suffered a heart attack in 2010 that left him almost incapacitated; he also lived with diabetes and high blood pressure. His sister, Paulette Keise, said he passed away on Friday at New York Hospital Queens.
WTF AFRICA- GOBLIN DEMANDS SEX FROM ITS OWNER
THERE was drama in Plumtree’s Mathendele suburb when a goblin started misbehaving demanding sex from its owner.
The incident happened on Monday evening when the woman got home from her vending stall in the business centre.
It is said that the woman only identified as Patience Nleya got home around 6:30 pm but shortly bolted out of the house screaming, “help! help!”
A source who witnessed the incident said it was an embarrassing moment for most women as they watched helplessly Nleya gyrating to an invisible man.
“She was running towards the business centre demanding help but it looks like whatever was chasing her caught up with her before she went far. We could hear her saying I don’t want to sleep with you. Please leave me alone,” the source said.
Women are said to have approached nearby houses asking for a wrapping cloth but it seemed people were afraid to lend any help.
Contacted for comment, Patience confirmed being tormented by the goblin.
“I do not know peace since the passing on of my grandmother. She never told me she was a dealer in the under-world and I do not how she used to treat the goblin,” she said.
Patience said trouble started barely a week after the burial of her grandmother and the goblin claims to have been left in her custody.
“All this started when a number of people were still around. It was four days after the burial and we heard a voice coming from the bedroom demanding food.
“While we were surprised, the voice ordered everyone out. We have agreed as a family to seek help from anyone with powers,” she said.
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