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Missing Cleveland teens found Alive 10 years after being abducted! (3 Viewers)

Looks like he's going to talk at sentencing.

(CNN) -- The Ohio man who imprisoned three women in his Cleveland home for a decade will speak at length during his sentencing Thursday, delivering a statement that his sister promises will allow people to see "the other side of Ariel Castro."

Castro pleaded guilty last week to 937 counts, including murder and kidnapping, in a deal that dropped a possible death penalty in exchange for life in prison plus 1,000 years.

He'll give a rather lengthy statement, explaining his life and who he really is, his sister, Marisol Alicea, told CNN on Wednesday night.

"(People will) see the other side of Ariel Castro ... not the monster that everyone thinks he is," she said, adding that she was in no way defending her brother.

"He must pay for what he did."

Alicea said she doesn't plan on attending the sentencing with others in her family, fearing the evidence will be too graphic.
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"You see your honor, when I'm not raping women that I've held captive for 10 years, I like to volunteer my time at a soup kitchen. So I can't be that bad right?"

 
 
Say victims were happy not tortured. I'm not a monster. I'm a moral person, I'm just sick. :cry: :bs: Blames victims, FBI, is ex wife for his demise. Judge says yes, you are a predator. Wow, dude is clueless and he beyond sick. Michelle Knight is in the gallery. Not sure if she's already spoken or will speak.

 
Well, if they put him in general population, he'll learn just how bad a thousand year sentence can be, especially for kidnappers and molesters.

 
CurlyNight said:
Say victims were happy not tortured. I'm not a monster. I'm a moral person, I'm just sick. :cry: :bs: Blames victims, FBI, is ex wife for his demise. Judge says yes, you are a predator. Wow, dude is clueless and he beyond sick. Michelle Knight is in the gallery. Not sure if she's already spoken or will speak.
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She already spoke.

Michelle Knight, one of Ariel Castro's kidnap victims, said in court she missed her son during her ordeal in captivity. "I cried every night. I was so alone. I worried what would happen to me and the other girls every day," she said at Castro's sentencing hearing Thursday.

Kidnapping victim Michelle Knight told her captor, Ariel Castro, during his sentencing hearing, "You took 11 years of my life away. ... I spent 11 years in hell. Now, your hell is just beginning."

"I can forgive you, but I will never forget," she said in her statement to Castro, calling him a hypocrite.

"Nobody should go through what I went through," she said tearfully. She called another victim, Gina DeJesus, her "teammate" saying the woman saved her when she was "dying from his abuse."

Knight said she "will overcome what happened" but Castro "will face hell for eternity."

"I will live on. You will die a little every day."
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Get ready for the Anti-Porn crusade.

"I believe I am addicted to porn to the point that it makes me impulsive and I lost it,"
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Yes, Porn made Castro kidnap the 3 girls and rape and abuse them.

 
Rayderr said:
CurlyNight said:
Say victims were happy not tortured. I'm not a monster. I'm a moral person, I'm just sick. :cry: :bs: Blames victims, FBI, is ex wife for his demise. Judge says yes, you are a predator. Wow, dude is clueless and he beyond sick. Michelle Knight is in the gallery. Not sure if she's already spoken or will speak.
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She already spoke.

Michelle Knight, one of Ariel Castro's kidnap victims, said in court she missed her son during her ordeal in captivity. "I cried every night. I was so alone. I worried what would happen to me and the other girls every day," she said at Castro's sentencing hearing Thursday.

Kidnapping victim Michelle Knight told her captor, Ariel Castro, during his sentencing hearing, "You took 11 years of my life away. ... I spent 11 years in hell. Now, your hell is just beginning."

"I can forgive you, but I will never forget," she said in her statement to Castro, calling him a hypocrite.

"Nobody should go through what I went through," she said tearfully. She called another victim, Gina DeJesus, her "teammate" saying the woman saved her when she was "dying from his abuse."

Knight said she "will overcome what happened" but Castro "will face hell for eternity."

"I will live on. You will die a little every day."
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Wow. How sad. To hear she was dying and Gina saved her is very emotional.

 
CurlyNight said:
Say victims were happy not tortured. I'm not a monster. I'm a moral person, I'm just sick. :cry: :bs: Blames victims, FBI, is ex wife for his demise. Judge says yes, you are a predator. Wow, dude is clueless and he beyond sick. Michelle Knight is in the gallery. Not sure if she's already spoken or will speak.
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All the harmony in the house crap, and "his" child was well taken care of, was pretty messed up too.

 
Really emotional statements. Tough to watch.

eta--theirs I'm talking about--his bs be damned.

 
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Why do these Ariel-Castro types, after being caught red-handed, never just totally own their acts? Someone has to advise them that there's no hope for justification to the court or to society at large, so why try?

I understand human nature has a hand in this, but sheesh.

 
Doug B said:
Why do these Ariel-Castro types, after being caught red-handed, never just totally own their acts? Someone has to advise them that there's no hope for justification to the court or to society at large, so why try?

I understand human nature has a hand in this, but sheesh.
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Because you can't live with yourself if you think you're that big of a monster. He truly doesn't see it the way you and I do.

He knew what he was doing was illegal, but he's built up an elaborate justification in his mind about how what he was doing wasn't that bad, or was even "good" or helpful. His mind is truly warped.

 
Doug B said:
Why do these Ariel-Castro types, after being caught red-handed, never just totally own their acts? Someone has to advise them that there's no hope for justification to the court or to society at large, so why try?

I understand human nature has a hand in this, but sheesh.
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Their ego. This whole thing was much more about power than sex. Sure sex was the vehicle to express that power but it was about the power. So he is still trying to have that power by taking up the courts time with what I am sure he considers a brilliant speech.

 
NCCommish said:
Doug B said:
Why do these Ariel-Castro types, after being caught red-handed, never just totally own their acts? Someone has to advise them that there's no hope for justification to the court or to society at large, so why try?

I understand human nature has a hand in this, but sheesh.
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Their ego. This whole thing was much more about power than sex. Sure sex was the vehicle to express that power but it was about the power. So he is still trying to have that power by taking up the courts time with what I am sure he considers a brilliant speech.
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Yup. This happened with bundy where he kept calling in investigators to give more details until finally they just quit taking the meetings figuring he was getting more satisfaction out of it then they were getting usefulness.

 
This is the guy who should be locked up and forgotten about by the DEA for 5 days. Of course they should have locked him in there with a revolver with a single bullet in it.

 
Text of Castro's statement:

First of all, I'm a very emotional person, so I'm going to try to get it out. I've stated before that I was a victim of sex acts when I was a child. This led me into viewing pornography throughout my whole life. Eventually after I held jobs because I always worked - what I'm trying to get at is these people are trying to paint me as a monster, and I'm not a monster. I'm sick. My sexual problems have been so bad on my mind, I'm impulsive. But eventually I married, had four children, lived a normal life, but I still practiced the art of touching myself and viewing pornography. I believe I am addicted to porn to the point that it really makes me impulsive and I just don't realize that what I'm doing is wrong. I know it's not an excuse. I'm not trying to make excuses here, because I know, and I told Dave at Sex Crimes [FBI's Dave Jacobs] that I will be put away forever. I'm not contesting that. I've been a musician for a long time - maybe 25, 30 years. You know, to be a musician, and to be a monster like they're trying to say that I am, I don't think I can handle that. I'm a happy person inside. I drove a school bus for 21 years, I did a very good job.

Towards the end I started slacking off, trying to get fired because I knew -- it was just too much. This job was too stressful, and coming home to my situation, you know, I just couldn't juggle both of them. I never had a record until I met my children's mother. My son was on there the other day saying how abusive I was, but I was never abusive until I met her. But he failed to say that at the end, before she passed away, that them two weren't even talking, so what I'm trying to say is that what she's saying -- that I was a wife beater - that is wrong, because this happened because I couldn't get her to quiet down. I would continuous (sic) tell her "the children are right there, would you please" -- and she responded I don't care if the children are there, and she would keep going and the situation would escalate until the point where she would put her hands on me and that's how I reacted - by putting my hands on her, and it would escalate.

After living with her for 12 years, we separated, and I was single for about five years. In that time, I continued to practice the art of masturbation and pornography and it got so bad that I used to do it like maybe two or three hours a day, non-stop, and when I would finish I would just collapse right there. When I picked up the first victim, I didn't even plan it that day. It wasn't something that they're trying to make it look like I did, and I planned it and I was thinking about it, I didn't do that. That day I went to Family Dollar and I heard her oversay (sic) something about she needed to get somewhere, and I reacted on that. But when I got up that day, I did not say, "oh, I'm going to get up and try to find some women" because it wasn't my character. But I know it's wrong, and I'm not trying to make excuses here, I know I'm 100% wrong for doing that, but I'm just saying, they're trying to say that I'm a violent person. I'm not a violent person. Like I said, I drove a school bus, and was a musician. I had a family. I do have value for human life, because every time I came home, I would be so glad to -- of the situation, as crazy as it may sound. And my daughter- she just made every day for me, after she was born. She never saw any violence going on at that house, your Honor. If anyone will question her, she'll say the opposite. She'll probably say, "My dad is the best dad in the world", because that's how I tried to raise her in those six years. So she won't be traumatized or anything like that. She had a normal life in those six years. I tried to take her out into public to give her a normal life: "look, this is how it works". I would take her to church. I would come home and just be normal, like a normal family. These accusations that I would come home and beat her - beat them - those are totally wrong, your Honor, because I, like I said before, I am not a violent person. I know what I did was wrong, but I am not a violent person. I simply kept them there without them being able to leave.

I know, when I picked up the second victim, which was Gina, I don't understand how I passed up my own daughter to pick her up, because I was driven by sex. And no, I did not know who she was. I saw her walking with my daughter, but I did not know that she was related to de Jesus' family. Because I know her dad. We went to school together. We didn't see much of each other in school, but I know him from school. Amanda, she got into my vehicle without even knowing who I was. I don't blame - I'm not putting fault at her, but I'm just saying - I'm trying to make up a point across that I am not a violent predator that they're trying to make me look, a monster, I'm not a monster, I'm a normal person. I am just sick. I have an addiction, just like an alcoholic has an addiction. Alcoholics cannot control their addiction. That's why I couldn't control my addiction, your Honor. But, most of the sex that went on in the house and practically all of it, was consensual. These allegations about me being forceful on them, that is totally wrong. Because there was times that they would even ask me for sex, many times. And I learned that these girls were not virgins from their testimony to me. They had multiple partners before me. All three of them. But, that's basically it. I just want to clear the record that I am not a monster. I did not prey on these women, I just acted on my sexual instincts because of my sexual addiction, and God is my witness, I never beat these women like they're trying to say that I did. I never tortured them. Finally, I would like to apologize to the victims, to Amanda Berry and Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight: I am truly sorry for what happened.

To this day, I'm trying to answer my own questions, I don't know why, a man that had everything going on for himself, I had a job, I had a home, I had vehicles, I had my musical talent - I had everything going on for me, your Honor. I have a good history of working, providing. I just hope they can find in their hearts to forgive me. Because we had a lot of harmony going on in that home. And if you've seen the Youtube video of Amanda this weekend, that right there itself proves that that girl did not go through no torture, that woman - did not go through no torture. Because if that was true, do you think she would be out there partying already or having fun? I don't think so. I seen Gina, in the media. She looks normal. She acts normal. A person that's been tortured does not act normal, they would act withdrawn and everything. On the contrary, I heard the opposite. She's happy. The victims are happy. I haven't seen much of Michelle, because Michelle, since Day 1, no one missed her. I never saw no flyers out there about her. But.. I feel that the FBI let these girls down, because when they, when they questioned, when they questioned my daughter, that's OK, but they failed to question me. I'm her father. If they would have questioned me, you know, too, whenever it happened, then, when Gina was missing, it's possible that it would have ended right there - so. And also Dave forgot to mention that I did mention to him that I was addicted to porn. I am truly sorry to the deJesus family, Michelle and Amanda.

You guys know all the harmony that went on in that home. I ask God to forgive me. I ask my family, and I apologize to my family also for putting them through all this. I want to apologize to the State of Ohio, the City of Cleveland, for putting a dark cloud over the city. I just want to apologize to everybody who was touched by these events, but I do also want to let you know that there was harmony in that home. There was harmony in that home. I was a good person. Being brought up - I never had a record. I just hope that they find it in their hearts to forgive me and to maybe do some research on the people who have addictions, so they can see how their addiction takes over their lives. So again I'm sorry to all the victims, I'm sorry to my daughter because I know that, God bless her, she's a miracle child, and god bless the women too, but there was times. When she was born I know that I could have taken her, that's why she's a victim also. I could have taken her to the ER, and I chose not to.

Thank God that nothing happened, nothing bad happened, because just last year she started getting toothaches and I said to myself, "Im not going to let her die", because I know the infection could possibly take her life. I was just - the situation, your Honor, was I know, I'm lacking words, but that's part of the problem that I have also. I'll start talking and I'll just go blank. So I apologize to you, your Honor, for bringing this case even into your court. Again, thank you everyone and I'm sorry for everything. I know the two judgment days when God comes and judges me, but I've been reading the Bible, I've been praying, and I've been asking for forgiveness due to the fact that I do have a sexual addiction, I don't know how he's going to judge me. I don't know the comment that the lady made from the deJesus family at the end, that was uncalled for. So again, thank you everyone, thank you victims, please find it in your hearts to forgive me. Thank you.
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Rayderr said:
Brady Marino said:
If this waste of sperm gets shanked in prison, does whoever does the shanking become a national hero?
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Without using a search engine, can you tell me who killed Jeffrey Dahmer?
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No. :bag:

Point taken.

Edit: I will argue that news reporting was a different beast back then. If Ariel gets shanked, I don't see how it doesn't create a social media tidal wave.

 
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johnnycakes said:
CurlyNight said:
johnnycakes said:
CurlyNight said:
The women were consensual partners in sex. Sometimes they even asked me for sex... Wow.
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Not only that... they should have known better to get in a car with a stranger, so they had it coming to them.
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Actually I don't think he was a stranger to him since they were all friends with his daughter.
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:goodposting: You follow this weirdo. I'll follow Whitey Bulger. Peace out.
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No more following. He's goooooooooooooooooooone and unless he dies and is reincarnated into the same body and crime, it is for good. :towelwave:

 
Man, what a crazy, crazy viewpoint. So many lines stick out.

"They were not virgins...they had multiple partners."

"Thank God nothing bad happened."

"Most of the sex was consentual."

Harmony. Harmony. Harmony.

"I blame the FBI."

The girls are partying now, so obviously I didn't torture them - "I just simply held them when they were unable to leave."

Hard to think that he doesn't believe what he's written there, but who knows.

Creepy ####.

Throw away the key.

 
Don't know what to think about this. Sorta wish he would have suffered more in prison, but then again I'm sure he was in segragation/protective custody anyway..

 
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