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5/7/2013

 
Three American women, have been rescued after ten years of abuse. At the time of capture, one girl was 16, another 14 and a third went missing in 2002 at 20 years of age. They were found in a house in the city of Cleveland.

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A neighbor saw a woman behind the front door screaming for help. When he suggested she open the door, she told him it was locked. He kicked the bottom of the cheap, flimsy aluminum door open and took the woman and her child to safety, where she told him about the other women inside the house.

In a frantic call to police, which was released to the news media, she identified her captor as Ariel Castro. She said she had escaped after he had left the house.

One of the girl's mothers died in 2006, three years after she went missing. How sad that she never knew her daughter was alive. It was assumed the girls were dead, and the mother of another victim said she believed her daughter had been sold into slavery.


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The three suspect Hispanic brothers under arrest are aged 50, 52 and 54. The investigation will be ongoing to answer questions about this case. No punishment for their crimes can ever wipe away their wicked behavior. I suspect they will go to a special place in hell when their life is over.

And the girls? They are being kept in hospital for further investigation. The women were able to speak to hospital staff but they declined to give further details.

Although much is still not yet known about the circumstances, it recalled memories of a series of recent high-profile child abduction cases.


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Jaycee Lee Dugard was 11 years old when she was dragged into a car as she walked to a bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991. She was discovered in August 2009, having spent 18 years held captive in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in Antioch, some 170 miles from South Lake Tahoe. She had two children.

In Austria, Natascha Kampusch was abducted on her way to school at the age of 10. She was held for eight years by Wolfgang Priklopil in the windowless basement of a house in a quiet suburb of Vienna. She managed to escape in 2006 while Priklopil was making a phone call. He committed suicide hours after she had fled.

Elizabeth Smart was 14 when she was taken from the bedroom of her Utah home in June 2002 and repeatedly raped during nine months of captivity. She was rescued in March 2003 less than 20 miles from her home. Her abductor, Brian David Mitchell, was jailed for life in 2011.

It's hard to imagine how these girls felt after their capture. At first, they would have been desperately unhappy and trying everything they could think of to escape. Perhaps they gradually became accustomed to their treatment, rather than sink into madness. But, after the joy of their release dies down, will they ever live a normal life?

Be aware of where your children are at all times. One of the girls' last calls to her mother mentioned getting a lift home from a fast-food takeaway. It's been forty years since my own children were teenagers. I don't know how I'd cope.


Denys Kelley link
5/7/2013 03:16:32 am

This has to be every parents fear! I can't imagine what the parents went though, yet alone how the girls coped with their situations. The girls are survivors! So thrilled to hear that they are alive!

Francene Stanley link
5/7/2013 03:28:41 am

The world is such a dangerous place for some children. How can parents hope to protect them? And how can they forgive?

Becky Sangha link
5/7/2013 03:24:36 am

This is a horrible story, unfortunately only touches the tip of the iceberg when it comes to child abduction and slavery. I have 3 young girls, my oldest, eight, asked me, "Mom, when will I get to walk to the park by myself (only 1/2 block away.)" Me, "never."

So unfortunate that we live in such a dangerous world.

Visiting from the UBC.

Francene Stanley link
5/7/2013 03:30:13 am

I'm with you all the way. Don't let them play away from your sight, unless they're with someone you trust.

Amy link
5/7/2013 08:27:02 am

Francene,
These cases just give me nightmares! I'm the mother of 6 and I pray every night and every day that God will keep them safe from awful crimes such as these. So sad.

Alana link
5/7/2013 10:56:01 am

This story has been all over the news here in the states all day. Every mother's nightmare, and I fear this kind of abduction (the ones we find out about because the women/girls manage to escape) is only the tip of the iceberg. But, in a twist that could only happen here, the man who rescued the woman may (it is rumored) get a spot in a McDonalds commercial because he mentioned McDonalds in his 911 (emergency) call to the police.

Francene Stanley link
5/7/2013 06:38:32 pm

What a strange world. Commercialism wins over tragedy.

Suerae Stein link
5/8/2013 05:11:20 am

Oh, these stories are so so sad. I am appalled that just one man would consider kidnapping a girl, but then to hear that THREE men are of like mind...there are no words. And as for those poor women. I don't know how they can ever recover completely from such a horrific ordeal. I once volunteered for LostnMissing, by creating posters for missing people. I had to stop... it was too upsetting to hear these stories over and over. I can't think of anything worse for a parent to handle.


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    Born in Australia, I moved to Britain half way through my long life.

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