Missing women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight have been found, Cleveland police say.
Missing Cleveland Woman’s 911 Call
Published on May 7, 2013
Listen to Amanda Berry’s emergency call to report that she’s alive after being kidnapped in 2003.
Ariel Castro
Ariel Castro knew the DeJesus family, and his family had grown up in the same west Cleveland neighborhood, according to his uncle, Julio Castro, who ran a grocery store half a block from the Castro house.
Castro lived in the two-story house located on Seymour Avenue since 1992. The home had been in foreclosure for 3 years of unpaid real estate taxes, at the time of his arrest. Neighbors described him as normal, and observed that he mostly kept to himself.
Ariel Castro had been arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but a grand jury declined to indict him. He was also arrested in December 1993 for disorderly conduct. He pleaded guilty to the charge. According to a 2005 filing in Cuyahoga CountyDomestic Relations Court, Ariel is accused of attacking his former wife, Grimilda Figueroa, who died in 2012. Figueroa twice suffered a broken nose, and suffered broken ribs, a knocked-out tooth, a blood clot on her brain, and two dislocated shoulders. Attorney Robert Ferreri requested that a judge “keep [Castro] from threatening to kill” Figueroa, and said Figueroa had full custody with no visitation for [Castro] of the children, but “Nevertheless, Castro frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from mother.’’
Ariel Castro was stopped six times by Cleveland Police between 1995 and 2008 for traffic violations. In 1996, Ariel Castro was accused of pulling a fence post from a neighbor’s property. The neighbor’s 6-year-old daughter stepped in the hole and fell, hurting herself. Court documents detailed significant hostility between the neighbors, and Castro admitted he spoke with police “on a number of occasions’’ about the neighbor. Castro was ordered to pay $241 in damages.
Pedro and Oneil Castro have addresses elsewhere in Cleveland.
A Cleveland resident named Pedro Castro told Fox8 in July 2012: “That’s a waste of money,” referring to a police search of property for the possible remains of Amanda Berry. It has not been verified if this Pedro Castro and the suspect Pedro Castro are the same person.
Related individuals
Ariel Castro has a least four adult children, including three daughters. Social media posts say he has five grandchildren.
Ariel Castro’s daughter, Emily Castro, is in an Indiana prison serving 25 years for the attempted murder by slashing the throat of her then-11-month-old daughter in 2008. Her brother, Ariel “Anthony” Castro (same first name as his father), was reported to say she was mentally ill.
Anthony wrote an article in June 2004 about the Berry and DeJesus disappearances for the Plain Press when he was a journalism student at Bowling Green State University. He even interviewed the mother of DeJesus for the piece. The father-son relationship and authorship of the article was confirmed by CNN in a phone interview with Anthony Castro.
Discovery and aftermath
On May 6, 2013, Berry, DeJesus, and Knight as well as a 6-year-old girl were found in a residential area at 2207 Seymour Avenue, just south of downtown Cleveland within a few miles of where they had disappeared. The 6-year old unidentified girl is the child of Amanda Berry. A witness, Charles Ramsey, said he heard a woman inside the house screaming for help. Because the door was locked, he kicked a hole in it. The woman called 9-1-1 after breaking out of the house, and said, “Help me; I am Amanda Berry. I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years. And I’m here and I’m free now.”
All three women and the child were taken to Metro Health Medical Center, suffering from severe dehydration and slightly malnourished but otherwise in good health. They were all released from the hospital by the next morning.
Arrests and charges
A 52-year-old male named Ariel Castro and his two brothers, Pedro Castro, 54, and Oneil Castro, 50, were arrested on May 6, 2013, shortly after the women escaped.
Investigation developments
Police said the women were sometimes kept in “chains and bondage” in the basement. The young women had multiple pregnancies, at least five live births, and multiple miscarriages.
Related individuals
Ariel Castro has a least four adult children, including three daughters. Social media posts say he has five grandchildren.
Ariel Castro’s daughter, Emily Castro, is in an Indiana prison serving 25 years for the attempted murder by slashing the throat of her then-11-month-old daughter in 2008. Her brother, Ariel “Anthony” Castro (same first name as his father), was reported to say she was mentally ill.
Anthony wrote an article in June 2004 about the Berry and DeJesus disappearances for the Plain Press when he was a journalism student at Bowling Green State University. He even interviewed the mother of DeJesus for the piece. The father-son relationship and authorship of the article was confirmed by CNN in a phone interview with Anthony Castro.
Investigation prior to discovery
Local police and the FBI have maintained active investigations since the disappearances, following many leads. The stories of the investigation into the disappearance of DeJesus and Berry was widely covered by media regionally over 10 years and on national/international TV shows.
Other criminal charges related to the investigation
In January 2013, Robert Wolford, a prison inmate who used to live in the neighborhood from which the girls disappeared, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice, making a false report and making a false alarm for providing a false burial tip in the disappearance of Berry. He was taken to a location in Cleveland, which was dug up with backhoes, but where the police found nothing.
Disappearance of Ashley Summers
Since 2008 police have been investigating as possibly related the disappearance of Ashley Nicole Summers, born June 16, 1993 and last seen July 6, 2007. Summers also disappeared from the same five-block area in Cleveland as the girls who were found. She was initially reported as a runaway after a family argument, when she took her clothes. She called her mother a month later to say she was well, but she has not been heard from since. She may have been spotted in a car in November 2007 by a relative. In April 2009 the FBI said they suspected that the same man abducted Summers, Berry and DeJesus, a belief that has not changed with the recovery of Berry and DeJesus alive.
There is a distinct possibility the 3 young woman blessed enough to have escaped the Castro brothers…..are not the only victims.
What President Obama Said to the New Graduates at Ohio State
The Ohio State University is an institution that dedicates itself to “Education for Citizenship” ‑‑ the Buckeye motto emblazoned on the school seal. So when President Obama spoke to the Class of 2013 at the school’s graduation this past Sunday, the President made a pitch for civic connection ‑‑ urging people to break through the cycle of cynicism that too often cripples progress in this country:
“Only you can make sure the democracy you inherit is as good as we know it can be,” President Obama told the graduates. “But it requires your dedicated, and informed, and engaged citizenship. And that citizenship is a harder, higher road to take, but it leads to a better place.”
President Obama’s Visit to Costa Rica
President Obama travels to Mexico and Costa Rica to reinforce the deep cultural, familial, and economic ties that so many Americans share with Mexico and Central America.
Weekly Address: Fixing our Immigration System and Expanding Trade in Latin America
President Obama describes the incredible opportunities to create middle-class jobs in America by deepening our economic ties and expanding trade in Latin America and discusses a recent Senate bill that takes commonsense steps to fix our broken immigration system.
Today’s Schedule
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
9:30 AM: The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing.
11:15 AM: The President holds a bilateral meeting with President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea.
12:15 PM: The President hosts President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea for lunch.
1:30 PM: The President and President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea hold a joint press conference.
3:50 PM: The President meets with senior advisors.
4:35 PM: The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary Hagel.
5:35 PM: The President attends a DNC event.
7:15 PM: The Vice President delivers remarks at the 2013 Annual Gala Dinner of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
President Barack Obama participates in the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office, May 6, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Three women, Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michele Knight, all of whom had been missing for some 11 years, were found alive on May 6, 2013, in the house of Ariel Castro in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. The six-year-old daughter of Amanda Berry also escaped. The three women had been missing for between nine and eleven years. They did not know each other prior to their abduction.
Missing Cleveland Girls Found Alive Decade Later: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michele Knight Found
Published on May 7, 2013
With the aid of a neighbor Amanda Berry broke free from a home where she was held captive.
Michele Knight
Michele Knight was last seen leaving her cousin’s house on August 22, 2002. She was 20 at the time of her disappearance. At the time family members believed that Knight may have left on her own over frustration resulting from losing custody of her son. She disappeared near West 116 and Lorain. A family member thought they saw her several years ago in a van with an older man at a shopping plaza on West 117th Street.
Michelle Knight went missing in Cleveland in 2002 and was believed to be between 18 and 20 at the time.
Unlike the other two women, little is known about the circumstances of her disappearance, which did not attract much attention in the local media.
Michelle was not officially registered as missing at the Ohio Police Missing Persons website.
This was because her family believed that she had probably left on her own as she was angry that her son was removed from her custody, her grandmother, Barbara Knight, was quoted as saying by the Cleveland.com website.
The grandmother added that her daughter, Barbara Knight, believed she had last seen Michelle several years ago in a van with an older man at a shopping plaza in Cleveland.
However, Barbara Knight told the Plain Dealer newspaper she never believed she would have vanished without a trace of her own accord.
Barbara Knight said that long after police stopped searching, she papered Cleveland’s West Side with fliers, and that even after she moved from Cleveland, she would often return to continue the search on her own.
She also said that she believes she once saw her daughter walking with an older man at a shopping plaza on West 117th Street several years ago.
When the woman trailed behind her companion, he would grab her by the arm and pull her along, Knight said. She said that she yelled Michelle’s name, but the woman did not turn round.
Amanda Berry
Amanda Marie Berry went missing was one day shy of her 17th birthday on April 21, 2003. She was coming home from her job at Burger King at West 110th and Lorain Ave. She is believed to have made it home, where she changed from her uniform, but no one saw her at home. She left money and all her clothes at home and had plans to celebrate her 17th birthday the next day.
Police initially considered Amanda Berry a runaway until a man used her cell phone to call her mother, Louwanna Miller, claiming the teen would return in a few days and that they were now married. Miller searched for her daughter for three years but died in 2006 of heart failure.
Before her disappearance Amanda had been in the gifted program at John Marshall High School but had switched to an online home school program where she was on track for an early graduation.
She vanished on 21 April 2003 after leaving her job at a Burger King in Cleveland at about 19:30 – the day before her 17th birthday.
Amanda had managed to call her sister to tell her she was getting a ride home just a few blocks away – but never made it.
The FBI at the time described her as having piercings in her ears and an eyebrow, and a scar on her lower abdomen.
The desperate search in the following years was too much for her mother, Louwana Miller, who died in 2006.
“She literally died of a broken heart,” Cleveland councillor Dona Brady said.
In 2009, the FBI and Cleveland police said they were pursuing hundreds of leads in the disappearance of Amanda and Georgina DeJesus, saying the cases may be linked.
In 2012, a man contacted the local authorities, claiming he had a tip about where to look for Ms Berry’s remains in Cleveland.
The site was dug up – but it proved to be a false lead. The man was later sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for making a false report and obstructing justice.
All three women escaped on Monday, when a neighbour heard someone – it turned out to be Amanda – screaming inside a house just south of the city centre.
Georgina DeJesus
Georgina “Gina” Lynn DeJesus went missing at age 14. She was last seen at a pay phone around 3:00 p.m. on April 2, 2004, as she headed home from middle school at West 105th and Lorain. She and a friend had called the friend’s mother seeking permission for a sleepover at DeJesus’ house, but the answer was no. Berry and DeJesus disappeared within five blocks of each other, or even on the same block.
No Amber Alert was issued the day DeJesus disappeared because no one witnessed her abduction. The lack of an Amber Alert angered her father, Felix DeJesus, who said in 2006 he believed the public will listen even if the alerts become routine.
DeJesus was featured on America’s Most Wanted in 2004, 2005 and 2006 who also linked her to Berry. The disappearances received regular media attention over the years including as late as 2012 as family and others held vigils and searched for Gina and Amanda. Police had an active investigation, offering a $25,000 reward for information on their location.
A week after Gina’s disappearance police released a sketch and description of a Hispanic man aged 25 to 35, 5’10″ tall 165 to 185 lbs with green eyes and a pencil-thin beard. The suspect had been seen near her school driving a light blue or white car.
She was last seen near a payphone in Cleveland in mid-afternoon on 2 April 2004 as she was returning home from school with a classmate. She was 14.
The girls had called the friend’s mother asking for a sleepover at the DeJesus house – but the mother said no. The two then parted ways.
Describing the missing girl, the FBI said Georgina – known to her friends and family simply as Gina – had a birthmark on her right leg and pierced ears.
In 2006, two men were held for questioning over the disappearance. They were later released after police did not find Georgina’s body at their property.
Later that year, police dug up a concrete garage floor in the city and used a sniffer dog after receiving a tip about where to look for the girl’s remains. But – again – it was a false lead.
Despite this, Georgina’s cousin, Sylvia Colon, on Tuesday told the BBC that the family “never gave up hope”.
“Gina’s mother… led the crusade; she knew her daughter was alive. She felt it as a mother.”
“She [Gina] was very close to her parents and her siblings. They enjoyed a very close relationship. Never once did we believe she had run away.
“Every year there was a vigil for Gina. There were memorials outside the house. We were living every day in the hope she would come home – and she did,” Ms Colon added.
Discovery and aftermath
Berry, DeJesus, and Knight as well as a 6-year-old girl were found in a residential area at 2207 Seymour Avenue, just south of downtown Cleveland within a few miles of where they disappeared. The 6-year old unidentified girl is confirmed by relatives to be the child of Amanda Berry and her captor, Ariel Castro. A witness, Charles Ramsey, said he heard a woman inside the house screaming for help. Since the door was locked, he kicked a hole in it. The woman called 911 after breaking out of the house and said, “Help me; I am Amanda Berry,” she said, “I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years. And I’m here and I’m free now.”
All three women and the child were taken to Metro Health Medical Center and they were reportedly suffering from severe dehydration and slightly malnourished, but otherwise in good health. They were all released from the hospital by the next morning.
Arrests and charges
A 52-year-old male Ariel Castro and his two brothers, Pedro Castro, 54, and Oneil Castro, 50, were arrested May 6, 2013 shortly after the girls escaped.
Suspects’ Background
Ariel Castro
Ariel Castro knew the DeJesus family and his family had grown up in the same west Cleveland neighborhood, according to his uncle, Julio Castro, who runs a grocery store half a block from the Castro house. Castro used to work as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District but was fired in November 2012 for making an illegal U-turn with children on the bus. Castro lived in the two-story house located on Seymour Avenue since 1992. Neighbors described him as normal, someone who mostly kept to himself, and someone who always entered and exited his home through the back door. Castro’s Facebook page shows a man interested in motorcycles and the bass guitar.
Castro was arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but a grand jury declined to indict him.Castro was also arrested in December 1993 for disorderly conduct. He pleaded guilty to the charge. Castro was stopped six times by Cleveland Police between 1995 and 2008 for traffic violations.
Pedro Castro and Oneil Castro
Pedro and Oneil Castro have addresses elsewhere in Cleveland.
Investigation
Local police and the FBI have maintained active investigations since the disappearances. They followed many leads that lead no where.
The son of suspect Ariel Castro, also named Ariel Castro, wrote an article in June 2004 about the disappearances for the Plain Press when he was a journalism student at Bowling Green State University. He even interviewed the mother of Gina DeJesus for the piece. The father-son relationship and authorship of the article was confirmed by CNN in a phone interview with the son who goes by Anthony.
Other criminal charges related to the investigation
In January 2013, Robert Wolford, a prison inmate who used to live in the neighborhood where the girls disappeared from, was sentenced to 4 ½years after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice, making a false report and making a false alarm for providing a false burial tip in the disappearance of Berry. He was taken to a location in Cleveland, which was dug up with backhoes, and the police found nothing.
Amanda Berry’s emergency call
Amanda Berry Frantic 911 Call For Help (5/6/2013)
Published on May 6, 2013
Amanda Berry disappeared aged 16 in 2003, while Gina DeJesus went missing at the age of 14 a year later.
They and Michele Knight, 32, who vanished in 2002 at the age of 20, were found in a house in the city of Cleveland, police confirmed.
A 52-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with the case.
The first sign that something odd was happening in Ohio came when a frantic-sounding woman called 911 seeking police help.
It was the beginning of a sequence of events that saw three missing women reunited with their families – and a few extraordinary tales spread worldwide by news and social media.
“Help me, I’m Amanda Berry…” the woman on the phone told the dispatcher, begging for police to get to her before her captor came home.
911 call: “Help me I’m Amanda Berry… I’ve been missing for 10 years”
Ms Berry’s voice was strained and panicked as she reminded the dispatcher that her disappearance 10 years ago had been headline news.
Now 27, she was last been seen leaving her job at a fast-food restaurant the day before her 17th birthday in April 2003.
“I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m here, I’m free now,” she told the emergency dispatcher as she pleaded for police to come quickly.
“I’m Amanda Berry… I’ve been in the news for the last 10 years.”
Charles Ramsey: The man next door
Charles Ramsey FULL Interview – “Amanda Berry Found” Alive After a Decade
Published on May 7, 2013
“Charles Ramsey” found “Amanda Berry” and Gina DeJesus alive today after a decade in captivity. Charles Ramsey was eating at his home near downtown Cleveland when he heard screaming next door. He found Amanda Berry, a woman who went missing 10 years ago, and a young child. Berry shouted for Charles to help her escape. Inside the house were two other women: Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, who both went missing in 2002. Charles Ramsey called 911 immediately to get help.
Charles Ramsey’s 911 Call After He Found Amanda Berry (WITH CAPTIONS)
Published on May 7, 2013
“Charles Ramsey” found “Amanda Berry” and Gina DeJesus alive today after a decade in captivity. Charles Ramsey was eating at his home near downtown Cleveland when he heard screaming next door. He found Amanda Berry, a woman who went missing 10 years ago, and a young child. Berry shouted for Charles to help her escape. Inside the house were two other women: Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, who both went missing in 2002. Charles Ramsey called 911 immediately to get help.
Ms Berry made the emergency call from a house across Seymour Avenue after a neighbour, Charles Ramsey, had heard her screaming for help.
In a series of interviews to an astonished media pack after police reached Ms Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, Mr Ramsey revealed both how the women were found – and his incredulity as he realized that his own neighbor appeared to have held them captive.
“I heard some girl screaming… and she was just going nuts on the door,” he told reporters. “We had to kick open the bottom [of the door],” he told one US TV interviewer.
To another reporter, Mr Ramsey spoke of his shock that the man he used to listen to music with and share ribs with could have been behind this.
“You got to have some big testicles to pull this off, bro, because we see this dude every day. I mean every day.”
Police: Officers jubilant
POLICE: Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba
As night fell in Cleveland, police and family began to speak out about the remarkable events.
“It’s a great day,” Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba said. “It was just amazing to see the emotion on these seasoned law enforcement officers when they went in there.”
Relatives: Families overjoyed
Family members were predictably elated, including one who lives on the same street where the three were held captive.
RELATIVE: Gina DeJesus’ aunt Sandra Ruiz
“She knew who we were and she knew we were looking for her all this time,” Gina DeJesus’ aunt Sandra Ruiz said.
“She’s a fighter and I knew she would come up on top one day. It just took a little bit too long.”
Who Is Ariel Castro?
Suspect accused of taking three teens arrested with his brothers
Ariel Castro, 52, a former school bus driver, has been named as the prime suspect in abduction of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight
Two of Castro’s brothers also arrested in the case
Castro’s son wrote a piece on Miss DeJesus’ disappearance back in 2004
Their uncle, Julio Castro, says he never wants to see his nephews again
Ariel Castro, accused with his brothers of kidnapping and holding three women for a decade, was a former school bus driver and outgoing resident of Cleveland’s Seymour Avenue, at least one neighbor says.
Records show that Castro was arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but that a grand jury declined to indict him. They also show that Castro, 52, owned the home at 2207 Seymour Ave. where the women were found, but that the house was in foreclosure because Castro owed thousands in real estate taxes.
Cleveland.com reports that Castro bought the house in 1992 for $12,000 from Edwin and Antonia Castro, but that it’s not clear if Ariel Castro is related to the couple.
Juan Perez told Cleveland’s NewsChannel5 that he grew up two houses down from the Seymour Ave. home and has known Castro since Perez was 5 or 6 years old.
Perez told the TV station that almost everyone on the block knew Castro.
“He was a nice guy, he would come around and say hi. He gave the kids rides up and down the street on his four-wheeler,” Perez said. “He would asked me if I wanted a ride. .. He seemed like he was a good guy to the kids that were here. … I didn’t think anything of it.”
Perez said Castro was not shy about attending backyard parties or barbecues. Perez also told NewsChannel5 he would see a bus parked outside of 2207 Seymour Ave., but that later on, he began to think Castro owned another property.
He described Castro as stopping at the home sometimes 10 minutes or an hour at a time.
“Now it’s like, red flag, red flag, red flag, somebody should’ve said something,” he said.
Perez told NewsChannel5 there’s a lesson to learned.
“I’m not the only one on the block that feels ashamed to know that we didn’t notice anything,” Perez told the TV station. “I mean, I feel like my head’s low, I work at a school, I work with kids. … I have a heavy heart right now.”
“I dare you…to do better,” President Obama urged the 2013 Ohio State University graduates when he delivered the commencement address on Sunday. In a speech focused on “citizenship,” the president called on the students to reject cynicism and strive to remain informed and engaged.
Obama spoke to a stadium packed with more than 57,000 attendees, addressing the students who grew up during a time of economic trouble, war, and terrorism. “You have been tested and tempered by events that your parents and I never imagined we’d see when we sat where you sit,” he said. “And yes, despite all this — or perhaps because of it — yours has become a generation possessed with that most American of ideas: that people who love their country can change it for the better.”
That last remark was the theme that united the speech — during which Obama recalled recent events (such as the Boston bombing, Texas fertilizer plant explosion, and mass shootings) and praised the “courage and compassion, a sense of civic duty, and a recognition that we are not a collection of strangers.”
Quoting his predecessor, who spoke at Ohio State in 2002, Obama said, “America needs more than taxpayers, spectators, and occasional voters. America needs full-time citizens.”
Lamenting a political system that gets caught up in the “small things,” the president told the students, “This is a joyous occasion, so let me put this charitably: I think it’s fair to say our democracy isn’t working as well as we know it can.”
He elaborated on the topic, speaking of the gridlock and the divisiveness, adding, “Only you can ultimately break that cycle.” But that “it requires your dedicated, informed, and engaged citizenship.”
We have never been a people who place all our faith in government so solve our problems — we shouldn’t want to. But we don’t think the government is to the source of all our problems, either,” Obama asserted.
The president underlined the need to keep the notion of citizenship alive, and that it comes not in short bursts, but should be a constant. He asked that the students “participate” and “persevere.”
In a speech focused on this broad theme, Obama said he would not get partisan — but pointed to the voices of cynicism, urging students to “reject” it and challenging them to tackle pressing issues with determination.
“I dare you, Class of 2013, to do better,” the president challenged. “I dare you to dream bigger.”
Want to see the face of two rapist? Want to see what it looks like to be small town football heroes who can get away with raping an innocent girl, an underage young girl, at a “house” party?
What the American future looks like for future athletes……
Now guess what amount of jail time Judge Thomas Lipps handed down to these two rapist…..
In sentencing the boys, Judge Thomas Lipps urged everyone who had witnessed what happened in the case, including parents, “to have discussions about how you talk to your friends, how you record things on the social media so prevalent today and how you conduct yourself when drinking is put upon you by your friends.”
Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’Lik Richmond, 16, were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison in a case that has rocked this Rust Belt city of 18,000 since last summer and led to allegations of a cover-up to protect the Steubenville High team. Mays was ordered to serve an additional year for photographing the underage girl naked.
They can be held until they turn 21.
The length of their sentence beyond the minimum one year will be determined by juvenile authorities; they can be held until they’re 21. Lipps said that “as bad as things have been for all of the children involved in this case, they can all change their lives for the better.”
The two broke down in tears after a Juvenile Court judge delivered his verdict. They later apologized to the victim and the community, Richmond struggling to speak through his sobs.
“My life is over,” he said as he collapsed in the arms of his lawyer.
Let me interject right here that the lives of rapist should be over in more ways than one, for these two young idiots.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — “Two members of the high school football team that is the pride of Steubenville were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided the Rust Belt city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community’s athletes.”
Am I the ONLY one who finds this entire case and how a backwoods dumbass community handled this unspeakable assault and rape of a young girl…..disgusting AND despicable?
America is one fucked up place to live in 2013. If you have children who have yet to reach adulthood….chances are they won’t reach adulthood before being raped, assaulted, or murdered.
America….love it as it is…..or work like hell to change it.
Jueseppi B.
