{"id":41131,"date":"2013-08-01T12:09:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=41131"},"modified":"2013-08-01T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:09:11","slug":"ohio-kidnap-womenthe-victims-kept-sexual-abuse-diaries-us-news-41131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ohio-kidnap-womenthe-victims-kept-sexual-abuse-diaries-us-news-41131\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Kidnap Women:The victims kept sexual abuse diaries \/ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ohio-Kidnap-Victims-Kept-Diaries\"<\/a>Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the horrific physical and sexual abuse they suffered, it has emerged.<\/h1>\n

The entries speak of sexual abuse, of being locked in a dark room and of dreams of some day escaping and being reunited with their families.<\/p>\n

The women – Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23 – also reflected on being chained to a wall and of being held like “prisoners of war,” according to court documents.<\/p>\n

The women’s kidnapper, Ariel Castro, lured one of them into his Cleveland home with the promise of a puppy for her son and later locked all of them in a vehicle in his garage for three days when someone visited him, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Castro repeatedly starved and beat one of the victims each time she became pregnant, forcing her to miscarry five times.<\/p>\n

One of the women broke free in May and called for help, frantically telling an emergency dispatcher: “I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for 10 years, and I’m here. I’m free now.”<\/p>\n

Castro claimed he did not have an exit strategy from his complicated double life and finally gave the women a chance to escape by leaving a door unlocked, they said in a court document.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Tim McGinty said in a sentencing statement that Castro, who chained his captives by their ankles and fed them only one meal a day, “admits his disgusting and inhuman conduct” but “remains remorseless for his actions”.<\/p>\n

Castro has pleaded guilty to 937 charges, including kidnapping, rape, assault and aggravated murder. He will be sentenced later.<\/p>\n

The former bus driver agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole in a plea deal that will see him escape the death penalty.<\/p>\n

While his guilty plea spared his victims from having to testify, more details of their ordeal are expected to be revealed when prosecutors present evidence of their abuse.<\/p>\n

It is unlikely Castro’s victims will attend the hearing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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