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## Video: Ariel Castro Found Dead

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_Published 2013-09-04. Ariel Castro Found Dead_


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## Transcript

Ariel Castro's last public words, delivered a month ago. I'm not a monster. I'm a normal person. I just sit, I did not prey on these [ INAUDIBLE ]. I just [ INAUDIBLE ] distance. Last night he was found dead. Discovered at 9: 20 hanging in his jail cell at the Correctional Reception Center in Oriond, Ohio near Columbus. He had been sentenced to life in prison, plus 1, 000 years for kidnapping and sexually assaulting 3 women for over a decade. Castro was being held in protected custody. The only one in his cell with guards checking on him every 30 minutes. Prison medical staff tried to revive him and rushed him to the Ohio State University Medical Center.

He was pronounced dead at 10: 52 pm. Castro received few visitors while in prison. His daughter told CNN back in May that she wanted nothing to do with him. My father's actions are not a reflection of everyone in the family. I have no problem cutting him out of my life. I have no problem doing that. I never want to see him again. Earlier this month the house where Castro tortured his victims was torn down. [ NOISE ] Neighbors were rejoicing during the demolition of this so- called house of horrors. At his sentencing, he apologized to his victims, but remained defiant about keeping Gina de Jesus, Amanda Berry, and Michelle Knight locked up in his home for around a decade.

On the school bus, and transition, and a family, I do have value for human life, because every time I came home, I would be so glad to see, of the situation, as crazy it may sound, I am truly sorry for what happened. To this day I'm trying to answer my own questions. I don't know why. Only one of his victims showed up in person to confront him. Saying she wanted him to spend the rest of his life in prison. Death penalty will be so much easier, you don't deserve that. I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning. For his three former captives Ariel Castro's death is yet another gruesome chapter in a tragic story.

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