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Cô tôiXung quanh vụ việc 3 cô gái vừa thoát khỏi ngôi nhà tù ngục ở Ohio sau nhiều năm mất tích, ngày càng xuất hiện nhiều chi tiết ghê rợn.
Cảnh sát vừa công bố hình ảnh 3 nghi phạm. Ảnh: Daily Mail
Giới chức Mỹ vừa công bố hình ảnh 3 anh em bị bắt sau khi 3 phụ nữ mất tích được tìm thấy trong ngôi nhà ở thành phố Cleveland.
Ba nghi phạm gồm có Ariel Castro, 52 tuổi, chủ ngôi nhà giam giữ 3 cô gái suốt hơn 1 thập kỷ qua và 2 người anh em Onil, 50 tuổi và Pedro, 54 tuổi. Ảnh của chúng được công bố trong bối cảnh các nguồn tin cảnh sát khẳng định những phụ nữ trong ngôi nhà này đã mang thai rất nhiều lần.
Ít nhất 5 đứa trẻ đã ra đời trong ngôi nhà, trong đó một nạn nhân bị sảy thai tới 3 lần, vì bị bạo hành và thiếu dinh dưỡng, theo NewsChannel5.
Hiện cũng chưa rõ chuyện gì xảy ra với những em bé ra đời trong ngôi nhà và liệu bé gái 6 tuổi được tìm thấy cùng mẹ là Amanda Berry, 26 tuổi - người chạy trốn khỏi ngôi nhà và gọi người tới cứu hôm 6-5, có nằm trong số những em bé nói trên.
Cảnh sát Ohio hôm nay (8-5) đã biểu dương hành động của Amanda bởi nhờ sự dũng cảm của cô, 2 nạn nhân khác là Gina DeJesus, 23 tuổi và Michele Knight, 32 tuổi - cũng mất tích hơn 10 năm qua, đã thoát được ngôi nhà mà họ gọi là địa ngục đó.
Tại cuộc họp báo cùng ngày, giới chức xác nhận cô bé 6 tuổi nói trên là con gái của Amanda nhưng chưa thể xác nhận cha của đứa trẻ có phải một trong 3 tên vừa bị bắt hay không.
Theo một báo cáo từ cảnh sát, trong tầng hầm có 1 dòng chữ ghi tên 1 phụ nữ và viết "Hãy yên nghỉ" nhưng cảnh sát chưa chắc chắn có liên quan đến vụ việc này hay không.
19 Action News dẫn nguồn lực lượng chức năng cho biết 2 người phụ nữ bị giam dưới tầng hầm và 1 người nữa ở trên nhà. Ít nhất 1 phòng trong nhà có gắn dây treo cổ.
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Kidnap victims released from Cleveland hospital reunite with families; 3 brothers arrested in shocking case
Officials hail Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight for their courage. Former bus driver Ariel Castro and his 2 brothers are busted. Neighbors said they had called cops twice in recent years to report strange behavior at the house, but cops never went inside.
Ariel Castro, 52, a former school bus driver, was arrested Monday in the abduction cases of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight about a decade ago.
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 neighbors said 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 probably inside 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.”
Ariel's brothers, Onil (l.) and Pedro Castro, have also been arrested.
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.”
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Law enforcement officers stand watch in front of a house on Seymour Ave. in Cleveland.
Cintron said her daughter spied a naked woman crawling through the backyard several years ago, yet cops turned up nothing unusual at the home.
In January 2004, cops first visited the house when Castro was accused of leaving a child aboard his bus.
But nobody answered the door at that time, and no charges were ever filed.
As recently as 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.
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.
“Cops never showed up,” Lugo said.
Jannette Gomez, who lives on the block, said she was second-guessing everything since the hostage trio emerged from the home.
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The house where, on Monday, three women who had disappeared as teenagers approximately 10 years ago were found alive in Cleveland.
“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.”
Ex-hostages Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were released from a Cleveland hospital in good condition Tuesday for long-awaited reunions with their stunned and thrilled families.
Berry, kidnapped at age 16, hugged her big sister Beth and a cousin on their first day together since her April 21, 2003, kidnapping.
The relatives also met Berry’s 6-year-old daughter, conceived and delivered during her decade in captivity.
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Amanda Berry (center), who had been missing since 2003, reunites Monday with her older sister, Beth Serrano (left). Berry is also with her daughter, a 6-year-old girl whom she reportedly gave birth to while she was imprisoned in a Cleveland home.
According to neighbors, Berry’s daughter was wearing a black wig, ballet dress and boots when she and her mother kicked their way through the front door of Castro’s home.
Officials refused to identify the little girl’s father, although three brothers were arrested in the bizarre case: Ariel Castro and siblings Pedro, 54, and Onil, 50.
Paternity tests were expected to determine which of the men was the dad. Ariel was seen playing with the little girl at a park near his home Sunday, Lugo said.
“‘It’s my girlfriend’s daughter,’ he said,” Lugo recalled. “She looked happy. They were playing like a regular Sunday. I didn’t think nothing of it.”
No charges had been filed against the three men as of Tuesday night, but the suspects were in custody at Cleveland police headquarters, cops said.
Normal protocol calls for Cleveland suspects to be charged within 36 hours, but a judge has extended that period to 48 for the case, police said Tuesday night.
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Cleveland resident Pedro Castro watched police excavate an empty lot in 2012 looking for Amanda Berry. At the time, he said, 'that's a waste of money.'
Authorities were investigating whether the three women were kept in the home as sex slaves by their captors. All three were probably tied up for years during their captivity, officials said.
Forced sex resulted in up to five pregnancies among the victims, WKYC-TV of Cleveland reported, citing “several police sources.” That report could not be confirmed by officials Tuesday night.
Cleveland Safety Director Martin Flask said Tuesday morning there were no reports about criminal activity at the home. But officials were still combing through police, fire and EMT — databases.
More creepy details emerged Tuesday about Ariel Castro after his arrest in the shocking case. The prime suspect in the three— abductions reportedly attended a pair of vigils for the victims while holding them hostage. His brother Pedro, as he watched authorities dig up a vacant lot last year in a hunt for Berry’s body, dismissed the search as pointless.
“That’s a waste of money,” he told a local television station.
There were also connections between Ariel Castro and the DeJesus family.
Castro knew the girl’s father, and his own daughter, Arlene, was close friends with DeJesus, Castro’s son, Anthony Castro, told the Daily Mail.
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Google Map image showing Ariel Castro's house where he kept Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.
DeJesus’ relatives once lived on the same block where the girl was held captive, said neighbor Javier Marti. “That makes it even more wrong, more shocking,” said Marti, 51. “I never in a million years would think he would do something like that. It’s hard to believe.”
The three brothers remained behind bars Tuesday, although officials had yet to announce any charges.
FBI investigators descended on the two-story house near downtown Cleveland, scouring the property and its interior for evidence.
During a morning news conference, emotional law enforcement members offered their thanks for a happy ending to the sad case. “Prayers have been answered,” said
Steve Anthony, head of the Cleveland FBI office. “The nightmare is over. These three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of perseverance.”
Anthony added a final thought: “Yes, law enforcement professionals do cry.”
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Sheriff deputies stand outside the house Tuesday. 'Prayers have been answered,' FBI Special Agent in Charge Steve Anthony said later that day. 'The nightmare is over. These young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of perseverance.'
Knight, now 32, disappeared in 2002. DeJesus — then just 14 — was walking home from school in 2004 when she vanished.
Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said he believed all three women were held captive in the Cleveland home since they were kidnapped.
The three victims were discovered Monday after Berry bravely alerted a neighbor for help when Ariel Castro wasn’t home, police said.
Berry, 27, managed to break through the bottom of the home’s front door and call 911 from a neighbor’s house.
“Help me, I’m Amanda Berry,” said Berry, her voice frantic and breathless as she spoke to a 911 operator. “I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years, and I’m, I’m here. I’m free now.”
The terrified woman was wearing pajamas and a pair of sandals when she made her escape, according to one neighbor.
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A law enforcement officer stands in front of the broken front door of a house on Seymour Ave., which was kicked in by a neighbor and resulted in the release of three young women who had been held captive there.
Aurora Marti, 75, was sitting on her porch when a shaking and weeping Berry bolted from the home — and screamed her name at the top of her lungs.
“Amanda was hysterical, screaming,” said Marti. “She was weak and skinny, and she had a little girl with her. She was crying and scared. I felt so sorry for that baby.”
The vision stuck with another neighbor, Ana Tejeda, who was unable to sleep or eat the next day.
“That baby was dirty,” said Tejeda, 51. “I am a mother myself. I can’t imagine.”
Police arrived at the scene Monday evening and led the other two women outside. Both had blankets wrapped around their heads before cops whisked them away.
“What these young girls went through, if you had seen them last night, you’d have nothing but compassion and love in your heart for them,” said Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba.
“We join the community in celebrating the safe return of these three women,” said hospital spokeswoman Tina Shaerban Arundel.
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FBI forensics personnel remove evidence from the house of Ariel Castro, where three women were held captive for a decade.
The Castro family was sent reeling by the arrests, and the three women reunited with their families while remaining far from the media glare.
At the home of the DeJesus family, a sign festooned with dozens of balloons declared, “Welcome home Gina.” Her aunt, Sandra Ruiz, said the scene inside the home was intense when the youth walked inside.
“Those girls, those women, are so strong.” said Ruiz. “What we’ve done in 10 years is nothing compared to what those women have done in 10 years to survive.”
The failure to find the three missing women was reminiscent of the 2009 case in which cops were criticized after 11 women’s bodies were found in the Cleveland yard of killer Anthony Sowell.
Tina Miller, a cousin of Berry, was among those who turned out just last month to mark the 10th anniversary of her abduction.
The case never dropped off the radar of law enforcement, though. Investigators twice launched digs in the hunt for Berry’s body after receiving tips in the case.
Jessica Aponce, 24, was walking home with DeJesus before her teenage pal disappeared. “She called her mom, and told her mom she was on the way home, and that’s the last time I seen her,” said Aponce. “I just can’t wait to see her. I’m so happy she’s alive.”
Neighbors described Ariel Castro as a loner who never allowed anyone inside his two-story home, and kept all the doors locked and shades down.
A neighbor of his daughter Angie declined to discuss her father’s arrest, but one of her Cleveland neighbors said the Castro clan was a scary bunch.
“He looks like an angel, but he’s not,” said Adriana Buckland, 57. “I will never forget his face. All of the family is screwed up.”
Ariel Castro’s neighbors had little nice to say about the suspect who lived so comfortably with his secret.
“There ain’t a place warm enough for that maggot,” said next-door neighbor Greg Schultz. “He’s a pretty sneaky son of a bitch. I’ve been there a year, they’ve been there 10 years, and I never saw a thing.”
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