Cleveland's police chief has said the three women held captive in an Ohio
house for about a decade were restrained with ropes and chains. Michael McGrath
told US broadcaster NBC that investigators believe the victims were allowed out
in the backyard occasionally.
He said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were in good
condition "considering the circumstances".
Former school bus driver Ariel Castro, 52, who owns the house where the
women were found, has been arrested along with his two brothers, Pedro, 54, and
Onil, 50.
Ariel Castro is accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing the three women;
his brothers are accused of complicity in the same offences, according to
arrest documents.
Chief McGrath said he could not confirm reports that the captives had had
multiple pregnancies. Police have confirmed a six-year-old girl, Jocelyn, who
was discovered along with the women, is Ms Berry's daughter. The girl was
apparently conceived and born during her mother's captivity.
Ms Berry, who disappeared in 2003 aged 16, escaped with the help of a neighbour
who heard her screaming and kicking a door while her alleged captor was out of
the house.
When police arrived they also found Ms DeJesus, 23, and Ms Knight, 32, in
the house. Ms DeJesus had gone missing aged 14 in 2004, while Ms Knight had
disappeared in 2002, aged 20.
Is horrible that these things still happen. These situation shows that there are evil people who make other
people suffer just to take pleasure. These people harm
their victims, relatives of the victims
and their friends, generating fear
to the rest of the community. When the rest of people
hear the news they
are afraid of going down the street or as the case of one of the girls who
was raped when she got off the school bus. All the victims
will never forget these horrible ten years, neither will their families. Unfortunately they
will remember all their lives these experience and
these girls will never be the same
people that they were before and
they will live in fear for the rest of their lives.
Kidnapping:
segrest
Three women,
pretending to be nuns, were arrested in Colombia recently and are accused of
hiding cocaine in their habits.
The women, 20,
32 and 37, donning the fake habits, tried to sneak through Gustavo Rojas
Pinilla International Airport in San Andres Sunday after arriving from Bogota,
according to Colombia's national police.
Each woman
carried two kilos of cocaine underneath the clothes, according to a police
statement.
Video recorded
by police show the women nervous and crying while being interviewed. Later,
somehow the women lost their habits as video footage show them being led to
police cars wearing street clothes.
The women face
charges of trafficking, manufacturing and the bearing of narcotics, police
said.
The drugs the
women were smuggling would be distributed in more than 60 thousand doses,
police said.
San Andres is
a Caribbean island which belongs to Colombia. Colombia in recent years has made
strides against drug cartels, but the country remains a top supplier of cocaine
to illicit markets.
Obviously
these women did
something wrong (hiding cocaine in their habits) and for that
they will be punished. These girls committed a criminal offence
knowing exactly what they were doing because to do all this action they did a fairly complex plan that finally went wrong. In my opinion these
girls were sure about what they were doing because if they hadn’t be sure, they wouldn’t have
done it. I guess someone else did the same or
something similar and it went well because they were
lucky, and that's why these three girls also
tried it. But unfortunately for these girls their plan went wrong
and I’m sure that they will never do this again.
Smuggle: import
illegally.
The 36-year-old was in the sea off the popular beach
of Brisants de Saint-Gilles when a shark charged at him twice, prompting a
nearby swimmer to raise the alert when he saw blood on the water, the local
prefecture said.
Lifeguards jumped in the water to fetch the victim,
who had lost a lot of blood and was in cardiac and respiratory arrest. They brought
him back to the beach but were unable to revive him.
The shark had bitten the surfer on the arm and on the
thigh. His wife was on the beach when the attack happened, and is being treated
for shock, authorities said.
The deadly shark attack was the first this year on the
island, where three people were killed by sharks in the past two years.
Last year, 78 shark attacks were reported around the
world, of which eight were fatal.
If I'm honest
this story has taken away my wish of
summer coming, going bathing in the sea and less going
on vacation where there are sharks.
Dying from a shark attack must be horrible but I
think it is still more horrible seeing how a shark is killing your husband in front of you and you are unable to do anything
about it because you can’t help him in any way. This is
the case of a newly married couple on their honeymoon who were on the
French Indian Ocean
island of Reunion. Although being eaten by a shark is less
probable than having a car accident when you are going to school or going to
work, so we don’t have to be afraid about the sharks because it’s unlikely that
it could happen.
