Listening to the presser via FoxNews, it sounds as if the city officials/police are doing a CYA.
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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
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.
these cases were disissed by the police as mere runaway cases.