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> ...Biden is done, stick a fork in him.
Shades of Obama's economic incompetence. Flash forward to Joe
Biden in 2022. The stench of Obama is everywhere.
CLEVELAND With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and a
smattering of applause from spectators, the Cleveland house
where three women were held captive and raped over a decade was
demolished Wednesday morning.
The house was torn down as part of a deal that spared Ariel
Castro a possible death sentence. He was sentenced last week to
life in prison plus 1,000 years.
As the last part of the house fell to the ground, a church on
the corner rang its bells marking the demolition, CBS Cleveland
affiliate WOIO-TV reports.
But the question remains: How could the crimes go unnoticed so
long in Castro's blue-collar neighborhood?
One of the women imprisoned there, Michelle Knight, showed up
early Wednesday before the work began. She made a brief
statement and released balloons into the air.
Family members of another victim, Gina DeJesus, watched from
across the street as workers started demolishing the house.
While DeJesus wasn't at the demolition, one of her aunts, Peggy
Arida, was in the cab of the excavator when it first struck the
house.
"It just felt great, knowing that it's coming down," Arida told
WOIO-TV.
Another of DeJesus' aunts, Janice Smith, told WOIO-TV that she
was "overwhelmed" from watching Wednesday morning's events and
said that the demolition was good news for DeJesus.
"I think it was great for her," Smith told WOIO-TV. "It was
medicine."
Katie Mae Brown, 62, a former resident of the street, said
tearing the house down was important for the neighborhood to
show "that monster — that he is behind bars and that he's never
going to get out."
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said the two houses to
the left of Castro's are also being torn down and will be
developed into a park or whatever the residents decide.
Prosecutors say Castro cried when he signed over the house deed
and mentioned his "many happy memories" there with the women.
They highlighted the teary-eyed scene to illustrate Castro's
"distorted and twisted" personality.
On Wednesday, McGinty called him "one evil guy."
Family members, including his son, Anthony Castro, went to the
house Monday and picked up personal items including old
photographs, guitars and bicycles.
Relatives said the house razing was part of the healing process
for them. "It's sad and hard but it is necessary for us to move
on," Anthony Castro told WKYC-TV.
The three women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004,
when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each had accepted a ride
from Castro.
They escaped May 6, when Amanda Berry, now 27, broke part of a
door and yelled to neighbors for help. Castro was arrested that
evening.
At Castro's sentencing, prosecutors displayed photos that
provided a first glimpse inside the rooms where the women lived.
Stuffed animals lined the bed and crayon drawings were taped to
the wall where Berry lived with her young daughter, who was
fathered by Castro. One of the drawings on a shelf said, "Happy
Birthday."
The window was boarded shut and door knobs had been removed and
replaced with multiple locks. Saucer-size holes in inside doors
were meant for circulation.
Another room, shared by Knight and DeJesus, had a portable
toilet, a clock radio and several chains.
The house, which quickly became a drive-by attraction after the
women fled to freedom, was fenced off and kept under 24-hour
police guard amid arson threats.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ariel-castros-house-torn-down-with-
help-from-gina-dejesus-aunt/
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