3 girls found in Cleveland after 10 year investigation

[SteveSteve72]

Wow this is crazy.

 

[h3at23]

So where were they exactly if people actually have been in the house?

I'm not sure

 

[just nikes]

Link to this article he wrote?

 

[airuphere23]

 

[solexsup]

I lived 2 houses down. I knew this mother#$^ personally. I've been in his house a ton of times and NEVER suspected any thing.

This mother#^@$ was a school bus driver. I always felt he was a lil weird but not this weird.

I went on a rant on twitter earlier because I truly felt helpless. I lived a few feet away this whole time smh

He's daughters are f'd up too. One of his daughters cut her babies throat and is serving a 25 yr sentence.

what. jesus christ man.

 

[deleted]

I hope they interview her cousin MARVIN BERRY.

 

[thenewjs23]

Man its crazy that last year they were digging for her body.

 

[swendro]

Link to this article he wrote?

Gina DeJesus’ disappearance has changed her neighborhood
by Ariel Castro

(Plain Press, June 2004) Since April 2, 2004 , the day 14-year-old Gina DeJesus was last seen on her way home from Wilbur Wright Middle School , neighborhood residents have been taken by an overwhelming need for caution. Parents are more strictly enforcing curfews, encouraging their children to walk in groups, or driving them to and from school when they had previously walked alone.

“You can tell the difference,” DeJesus’ mother, Nancy Ruiz said. “People are watching out for each other’s kids. It’s a shame that a tragedy had to happen for me to really know my neighbors. Bless their hearts, they’ve been great.”

On Cleveland ’s west side, it is difficult to go any length of time without seeing Gina’s picture on telephone poles, in windows, or on cars along the busy streets.

“People are really looking out for my daughter,” Ruiz said.

For seven weeks, Gina’s family has been organizing searches, holding prayer vigils, posting fliers and calling press conferences. Despite the many tips and rumors that have been circulating in the neighborhood, there has been no sign of her.

One thing is for certain, however. Almost everyone feels a connection with the family, and Gina’s disappearance has the whole area talking.

“It’s traumatized a lot of people,” Bob Zak, Safety Coordinator of the Westown Community Development Corporation, said. “People are suspicious of everyone. Kids, parents, and grandparents are afraid.”

The organization serves Cleveland ’s Ward 19, which stretches from West Boulevard to West 134th Street .

Parents and relatives waiting for their children as school let out at Wilbur Wright recently expressed concern about the number of sex offenders living and working in the area.

“I really believe there needs to be more security,” Vaneetha Smith said as she waited for her niece outside Wilbur Wright Middle School at the end of the day. “We have too many kidnappings, and they should crack down on all the sex offenders in the area.”

Luis Perez echoed Smith’s concerns as he waited for his niece at the school.

“I think the neighborhood is pretty bad,” he said. “You have to be aware of some people out there.”

The Ohio Electronic Sex Offender Registration and Notification (eSORN) database lists 133 sex offenders living or working in Gina’s immediate zip code. Many residents of the area, however, cannot use the database, as they do not have access to the Internet at home.

“I have been here almost four years and I have been notified of only one sex offender,” Ruiz said. “And he lives only about 1,000 feet away from here.”

Ohio law prohibits sex offenders who are required to register from establishing their residence within 1,000 feet of school buildings.

“There is no enforcing the laws because they still live right next to the schools and the bus stops,” Ruiz said. She believes the process of registering sex offenders is essentially a waste of time.

At a Ward 19 crime watch meeting, one of ten monthly, residents describe the area as a multi-ethnic community where people work and try to keep their housing up to par. They feel the disappearance of Amanda Berry on April 21, 2003 was a wake-up call, but Gina’s case really caught everyone’s attention.

Many residents believe the schools and the city have more work to do to help out.

“There is not enough supervision at the schools and when the kids get out, they still run through the streets,” Smith said. “They say that once they leave the school premises, the school is not responsible for them. But until they reach their house, I believe they are. They should be more concerned with their safety.”

“The school is supposed to be a safe place,” Perez said. “They need more police around the schools, surrounding the area. Without that, it’s just going to keep on going and there will be more innocent people getting hurt.”

Isaac Rodriguez has seen some changes happen at Wilbur Wright.

“There are more security guards at the school now,” the father of two middle school students said. “They have been having assemblies and talking to the kids about the danger.”

“When you send your kids out to school now”, Smith said, “you don’t know if they are going to make it home or not. From West 105th to [West 110th], anything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.”

Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force.

“The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the scene of every crime as they occur, Zak reports that residents are getting responses to calls “one, two, and four hours later.”

Cuts in the police force are not the only budget changes that are directly affecting residents. The Cleveland Municipal School District is also mulling how it will eliminate its projected $100 million budget deficit. Among the items cut will be purchased services, employee overtime, supplemental pay, textbooks, school staff and student transportation.

www.­nhlink.­net/­plainpress/­html/­stories/­2004-­06/­dejesusdisappear­ancechangesneigh­borhood.­htm

 

[thenewjs23]

I lived 2 houses down. I knew this mother#$^ personally. I've been in his house a ton of times and NEVER suspected any thing.

This mother#^@$ was a school bus driver. I always felt he was a lil weird but not this weird.

I went on a rant on twitter earlier because I truly felt helpless. I lived a few feet away this whole time smh

He's daughters are f'd up too. One of his daughters cut her babies throat and is serving a 25 yr sentence.

Her daughter's baby may have been her fathers baby.

 

[i2endmc]

"i knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms, something is wrong here"
quote of the year!

jokes aside, such a sad story. the world kept moving without these girls for 10 years.

 

[216301baller]

i think the guy down at lucasville knew about it..its just a coincidence he tells them she was burried in a cemetary thats close to that street

 

[bhergh]

dam it I'm late

 

[chancedprep]

Crazy world we live in, glad to see the 3 girls are alive. But dude had me rolling!!! Talking about he use BBQ with the guy, then had the never to say he new it was a problem when a white girl ran into a black man arm!!! WTF #dead lmao

 

[h3at23]

Man its crazy that last year they were digging for her body.

Wade St is actually the next street just north of Seymour Ave. Wow, they were close

 

[T0INE]

Crazy.

 

[dakid23]

Crazy 10 years lost

 

[servechilled81]

I lived 2 houses down. I knew this mother#$^ personally. I've been in his house a ton of times and NEVER suspected any thing.

This mother#^@$ was a school bus driver. I always felt he was a lil weird but not this weird.

I went on a rant on twitter earlier because I truly felt helpless. I lived a few feet away this whole time smh

He's daughters are f'd up too. One of his daughters cut her babies throat and is serving a 25 yr sentence.

whoa!

 

[216301baller]

https://www.facebook.com/#!/ariel.castro.10888938?fref=ts

dudes fb page wow

 

[h3at23]

^yup, that's him

 

[Mister Meaner]

Maaan, you never know who is capable of such acts. Terrifying.

 

[sk8eddunks]

What is the world coming to... You don't have to kidnap women for 10 years to get the yambs...

 

[ny mavurs]

Just peeped his FB now I feel bugged out

 

[hebgbz]

Holy moly that is f***ing wild that a NTer was INSIDE the damb house! Talk about close to home

 

[h3at23]

This is the story on his one daughter, Emily. Who was my wife's BF growing up



25 years for baby's slashing

Mental illness didn't prevent telling right from wrong: Judge

Before she was sentenced to 25 years in prison, Emily Castro wanted a judge to know she was a good mother.

But the 20-year-old could offer no explanation for why she slashed her 11-month-old daughter’s throat last April, leading to charges of attempted murder and battery. The girl, Janyla, has since made a full recovery.

In January, in a rare trial before a judge rather than a jury, Allen Superior Court Judge John Surbeck found Castro guilty but mentally ill of attempted murder. The charge of battery was included in the more serious charge and not included at sentencing.

Surbeck sentenced Castro to 30 years in prison but suspended the last five years, to be served on probation. She will be required to seek ongoing mental health treatment as a condition of her probation.

Castro sobbed through much of the sentencing hearing.

She was arrested April 4 when police were called to the 3700 block of Parkhill Avenue on a report of a dog biting a child, a report later found to be a passer-by’s erroneous observation. When police arrived, they found 11-month-old Janyla bleeding from severe cuts on her throat and being held in her grandmother’s arms.

Prosecutors argued Castro tried to kill her daughter after breaking up with the girl’s father the day before the attack.

During the trial, defense attorneys John Bohdan and Zachary Witte produced evidence Castro suffered from serious depression for years before the birth of her daughter, and that it spiraled into paranoia, causing her to think her family was trying to kill her and the baby, at the time of the attack.

Many of the statements made during Friday’s sentencing hearing focused on the unknowable “why” of what led to Castro’s actions. No one had answers.

Not prosecutors, who said there is always a struggle in such cases to find a reason.

Not Bohdan, who said Castro’s actions didn’t make sense.

And not Castro herself.

“I don’t know how this happened,” Castro said. “I want you to know I am a very good mom.”

Speaking on behalf of his sister, Ariel “Anthony” Castro described the torturous last 10 months, in which his family nearly lost both a grandchild and her mother.

“What happened to Janyla was serious, unthinkable and irreversible,” he said, reading from a statement. “What happened to my sister is no less serious.”

Emily Castro’s mental illness was something the family saw every day, and it was regrettable it failed to meet the legal definition of insanity, her brother said.

She was not an “animal who tried to kill her daughter out of revenge,” he said, describing his sister as a proud mother who put together scrapbooks in anticipation of Janyla’s first birthday.

In sentencing Emily Castro, Surbeck also addressed the unknown.

“It is certainly a mystery as to how this happened or why this happened,” the judge said.

While there was persuasive evidence of mental illness, it was clear the mental illness did not prevent Emily Castro from knowing right from wrong, making her legally responsible, Surbeck said.

Rebecca S. Green | The Journal Gazette

 

[firepower]

Crazy story!

h3at23 don't beat yourself up bro, these dudes obviously covered their tracks meticulously, even the cops didn't have a clue.