“I am not a monster. I am a normal person. I am just sick.” Those
were among the words Ariel Castro addressed to an Ohio judge as he faced
the bar of justice yesterday. Shortly thereafter, Judge Michael J.
Russo of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court sentenced Castro to life
in prison with no chance of parole, and then added an additional 1,000
years of prison time.
Castro, age 53, had kept three women imprisoned in his Cleveland home
for a decade, treating them as sex slaves. All of the women were young
when Castro abducted them; two were teenagers. He entered a guilty plea
yesterday in order to avoid the death penalty. He eventually pleaded
guilty to more than 900 criminal counts, including aggravated murder,
rape, and kidnapping, among other crimes. The aggravated murder count
was tied to Castro’s brutal beating of one woman when she was pregnant
with his child. The unborn child died and the woman miscarried. Continue at Al Mohler
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