Posted on 05/07/2013 8:14:39 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Police knocked on the door of the home where three missing girls were held captive for a decade - but found nothing, it was revealed today.
Officers visited the home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004 as part of a child services' investigation but left when no one answered.
Police had been alerted to the man living at the home, Ariel Castro, now a suspect in the abduction, after he inadvertently left a boy at a bus depot while working as a school bus driver. No criminal charges were brought and no follow-up inquiries made.
Amanda Berry, 26, and Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32, escaped the home on Monday night, where it is believed they had been chained in the basement for ten years.
Questions will now be asked as to how police and federal investigators failed to find the girls who remained undetected at the home just three miles from the block where they all went missing.
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The three scumbag brothers won’t get an official death penalty. But they stand an excellent chance of being dealt the death penalty by fellow inmates who don’t take kindly to child molesters.
Listening to the press conference this morning, you’d think the police surrounded the house with S.W.A.T., broke down the door, and rescued the girls.
The girls they kidnapped were between 17 and 20, right?
I think the expectations of the prosecutor is just to get them into prison anyway possible, and let the insiders take care of the real punishment.
I’m not sure there’s much else police could have done.
13, 16, 22 based on current ages minus 10 years.
The past child abduction investigation was over a fairly common event of a child being left on a bus.
Exactly — so why is this news? The police swung by for a routine issue and didn’t force entry when no one answered. Because there was no need to. Yet this story is printed... why?
Gee, doesn’t that sound familiar!
The police are called to the house and they knock on the door and no one answers — and that is the best that they can do???
Follow up!
Come back a second time, maybe after the mid-morning donut break?
I agree. You can’t blame the cops for a well-executed crime, as it appears this was.
What bugs me, is why today? What happened that allowed her to break free now that wasn’t possible last year or the year before?
Because they same lack of effort was shown with the other kidnapped girl who escaped after 20 years. Police were just lazy.
proxy_user~:” The girls they kidnapped were between 17 and 20, right?”
“Amanda Berry,(sic :currently) 26, and Gina DeJesus,,(sic :currently) 23, and Michelle Knight,,(sic :currently) 32, escaped the home on Monday night, where it is believed they had been chained in the basement for ten years. “
Expect more of this behavior with imposition of Sharia in the future !!
While there is no indication that the perps were Muslims, this behavior will increase in the future.
Hindsight is 20/20. We should toss the Constitution on a daily basis just in case someone is doing something wrong in their house.
And, isn’t everyone assuming the girls were in that house at the time the police came for the chld-on-the-bus deal?
It’s all second-guessing. None of us were there or had the same information the cops did.
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