Posted on 05/07/2013 4:21:45 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
CLEVELAND (AP) — The woman's voice was frantic and breathless, and she was choking back tears. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."
Those words led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where Berry and two other women who vanished a decade ago were found Monday, elating family members and friends who had longed to see them again.
Authorities later arrested three brothers. They released no names and gave no information about them or what charges they might face.
City officials have scheduled a news conference for Tuesday morning.
Police Chief Michael McGrath said he thinks Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were tied up at the house and held there since they were in their teens or early 20s.
A 6-year-old also was found in the home, but police didn't disclose the child's identity or relationship to anyone in the home. The women appeared to be in good health and were taken to a hospital to be evaluated and be reunited with relatives.
The women's escape and rescue began with a frenzied cry for help.
A neighbor, Charles Ramsey, told WEWS-TV he heard screaming Monday and saw Berry, whom he didn't recognize, at a door that would open only enough to fit a hand through. He said she was trying desperately to get outside and pleaded for help to reach police.
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sounds like it might have been some illegal aliens brothers who kidnapped and held them hostage all this time.
Video interview of neighbor who had reported screaming of women in the general vicinity a couple of years ago:
Incompetence is the worst form of corruption.
Draw your conclusions how far it goes
For ten years, apparently, there was some great police work in that community. NOT!
I know about a half dozen families on my street of 60+ houses and that was because we made an effort to get to know them. This isn't the world of 60 years ago or even 30 years ago. We've taken "mind your own business" to the level of "don't know anything about anyone." I would assume that makes committing crimes like this easier and police work more difficult.
Obviously we don't want 1984 with neighbors turning each other in for thought crimes but I'd like to know if the guy next door kidnapped three teenage girls and chained them up in the basement.
Listening to the presser via FoxNews, it sounds as if the city officials/police are doing a CYA.
Other properties to search.
Bullets are too fast, dear, and painless.
I think a slow dip bath in lye.
Recall this city just went through the serial killer Anthony Sowell...
Cleveland abductions a chilling reminder of ‘House of Horrors’
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/us/ohio-house-of-horrors/index.html
Maybe I come from a high-tension urban jungle but I find no fault in the 911 operator at all. Listened once, and read the transcript. The operator has to determine the problem and the peripheral situation, get through the caller’s alarm or hysteria, assess the immediate danger to caller or anyone else on scene, get the location, and decide how the caller ought to proceed until police arrive (ie, take shelter, stay with people, defend self...). The operator has to focus and get the caller focused. This is no simple task and it’s no time for “sympathy” either.
Further, the operator had determined that the caller was with neighbors, was in no imminent danger.
A cool, calm demeanor is a pretty effective quality in a 911 operator.
His demeanor was aloof, not calm.
You can go back 1000 years from that when the Hebrew tribe of Benjaman decided to restock its supply of wives by snatching the daughters of Shiloh while they danced at a festival. See: Judges chapater 21
Aloof? Operator called her “dear” at one point. How much more warmfuzz do we need there?
I just heard an interview with a neighbor who said that several reports had been made about that house — including one that 3 men were walking around with 3 girls — and the police just made a driveby and nothing happened further to investigate.
Release them on bail to the neighborhood. Alert families where/when first. Then slowly feed them into a wood chipper that has been prepositioned backed up to a catfish pond.
I like the way you think. I think all child molesters should die by: SCAPHISM
Amazing, wasn't it? To hear them talk, you'd have thought the cops surrounded the house, broke the door down, and pulled the girls out.
I thought I was the only one that noticed the ho-hum, we-will-get-t-you-when-we-can approach by the 911 operator.
Here is the 911 call:
Caller: Help me. I’m Amanda Berry.
Dispatcher: You need police, fire, ambulance?
Caller: I need police.
Dispatcher: OK, and what’s going on there?
Caller: I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years, and I’m, I’m here, I’m free now.
. . . . . . .
Dispatcher: OK, talk to the police when they get there.
Caller: OK (unintelligible).
Dispatcher: WE’RE GOING TO SEND THEM AS SOON AS WE GET A CAR OPEN.
Good Lord. . . .a hysterical girl calls, tells the 911 operator that she just escaped from being kidnapped and held for the past 10-yrs and the 911 operator basically says, ‘thanks, we will send someone when we get a chance.”
Good Lord. . .
I'm sure Mr. Ramsey will be the latest YouTube autotune star.
True. . .but basically telling a hysterical girl that just told you she’s a kidnap victim that was held for 10-yrs and just escaped that “we will get around to seeing you when we get a chance” is hardly an acceptable response.
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