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Ohio women were held with ropes and chains, police say

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

 

 

 

Colombia arrests fake nuns with cocaine under their habits

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.

A french honeymooner has been attacked and killed by a shark while surfering not far from the beach on the Freanch Indian Ocean Island of Reunion, authorities say

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.