How would you feel if you turned
around one day and someone that you were very close with had just disappeared?
What if you had never heard from them again? Wouldn’t you assume that they were
dead? Well recently I have read an article called “Man charged with kidnapping,
raping Cleveland girls” as seen on CBS3 eyewitness news, about three women who
were missing for about a decade before deciding to free themselves.
In the article,
CBS3 reporters talk about how Ariel Castro held three Cleveland girls captive
for about a decade. It was said that he lured them to his car by offering them
a ride to where they needed to go, he must’ve looked like a trustworthy person.
In the article it says, “Sources tell CBS News the girls and Castro all
confirmed that Castro did not force each of the three girls into his car at the
initial abductions; he offered them a ride and they went willingly -- but there
is no doubt they were kidnappings.” Meaning, that although the girls willingly
got in the car, it was still considered the beginning of the kidnapping.
Also in the
article, they talk about how neighbors had repeatedly reported the noise of
which they heard coming from Castro’s home, and also reported having seen a
naked woman in the backyard and police had done nothing about it, in the
article, it says “some neighbors said that they had told police years ago about
hearing pounding on the doors of the home and seeing a naked woman crawling in
the yard.”
I think that
there is more that police can do to prevent things like this from happening
because if they had responded to the reports of the people, those women would
not have been held captive for a decade. I think that the three women had formed a bond while being held captive for so many years. If you ask me, Castro and his two brothers deserve the death penalty
