Accused Kidnapper Ariel Castro Preyed on His Daughters' Friends, Emily Castro Says, - Neighbor Reported Screams in Past, Teen Girls Held Captive, Forced Into Prostitution

- Accused Kidnapper Ariel Castro Preyed on His Daughters' Friends, Emily Castro Says
- Castro Neighbor Reported Screams in Past
- Teen Girls Held Captive, Forced Into Prostitution

Accused Kidnapper Ariel Castro Preyed on His Daughters' Friends, Emily Castro Says  By RUSSELL GOLDMAN   May 16, 2013

Ariel Castro, the man accused of kidnapping three women and keeping them imprisoned in his home for a decade, stalked the neighborhood where his daughters lived and preyed on the girls' friends, his daughter says.

Two of his alleged victims, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, went to school with Castro's two daughters and the four girls all knew each other, his daughter Emily told a private investigator in a recorded jailhouse interview obtained by ABC News.

"It couldn't be coincidence," Emily Castro told private eye Chris Giannini of her father's decision to allegedly target two girls his daughter's knew.

READ: Cleveland Kidnap Suspect Comforted Victim's Mom Last Year

Emily Castro is serving a 25 year prison sentence for stabbing her own infant daughter in 2011.

At the time of her 2003 abduction, Berry lived just a few houses down the block from the home in which Castro's daughters lived with their mother and stepfather. And Emily's sister Arlene was the last person to see DeJesus before she disappeared.

Berry, now 26, and Emily, now 25, attended school together. "I went to Wilbur Wright (Middle School) with her," Emily Castro told Giannini.

She said she was bothered that her father allegedly "used" her and her sister to look for victims on their street where they lived and played....

She said her father was routinely abusive of her mother Grimilda Figueroa, even beating her once while her mother was recovering from brain surgery. During the incident Emily Castro said she jumped on her father's back stabbing him with a pencil in an effort to get him to stop.

Ariel Castro was arrested following that incident, but the charges were later dropped....
http://abcnews.go.com/US/accused-kidnapper-ariel-castro-preyed-daughters-friends-emily/story?id=19195556 


Castro Neighbor Reported Screams in Past 05/07/2013
Juan Perez discusses his neighbor Ariel Castro, who was arrested in the abduction of three women.

Transcript for Castro Neighbor Reported Screams in Past

We're joined by another neighbor, juan perez. Thank you for joining us this morning. I know you live just two houses away from ariel castro.

Before you saw the police pull up last night, had you had any sense that something terribly wrong was happening inside that house? No, I had no idea.

He was loving to all the kids in the neighborhood. He was nice to me since I was 5 years old. Never had any kind of suspicions....

What can you tell us what happened there? Well, my sister -- my mother had heard the screaming and then I heard it too. My sister then reported it.

But we didn't know which direction it was coming from. We didn't know seriously if it was from the right side or the left side because we were inside the house, but there's a difference between -- there is a difference between a woman that's, you know, playing around and joking around screaming and there's another kind of scream that makes you want to report. And my sister reported it....
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/missing-cleveland-girls-found-alive-castro-neighbor-reported-19123728  



Teen Girls Held Captive, Forced Into Prostitution
Part 2 of 2008 "Primetime": Two Ohio cousins kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.
05/10/2013

Transcript for Teen Girls Held Captive, Forced Into Prostitution

Two teenage cousin. -- who vanished off the streets of Toledo have now been missing for 48 hours. I think it -- price -- something's happened.

Police think the girls ages fourteen and fifteen have probably run away in the most likely come home soon. -- Kimberly his mother Stephanie refuses to just sit and wait....

All the while the girls are being held captive for us towns and -- -- less than six miles away by a pimp and two prostitutes.

....The FBI thinks it's the bigger number a 100000. Minors in America. Forced to trade sex for money.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/teen-girls-held-captive-forced-prostitution-19153038