will do so. perhaps to clarify to those additional charges have to do with michelle knight and her allegations that she was pregnant perhaps five times and that ariel beat her and starved her and that she miscarried. i want to make sure people understood the connection between those additional charges and then the death penalty in ohio law. anyway, records show that castro was arrested for domestic violence back in 1993, but a grand jury declined to indict him. again in 2005, accused of domestic violence, that included among other things, a nose broken twice, two broken ribs, knocked out tooth. blood clot in the brain, two dislocated shoulders, his ex-wife noted in the 2005 incident that castro frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from mother, even though he did not have visitation rights at the time. worth noting that the protective order from 2005 was only dropped because the ex-wife s attorney was unable to attend the
claims ariel castro orchestrated the charges against him to deflect attention from castro s own alleged crimes. colon is now planning to appeal his conviction. the three kidnap victims said they never left castro s property but there are counts that castro did take the little girl out. moses cintron says he occasionally saw castro with the 6-year-old in a neighborhood park. the girl, he says, wouldn t play with other children. but would pet his small dogs. she was well-dressed, you know, and well cared of. slightly slender, but, you know, she was also kind of white. reporter: cintron now says he d like to take one of his dogs to the girl to let her play with it so she won t have to come back to that park. brian todd, cnn, cleveland. and we are also hearing for the first time from the mother of ariel castro. lillian rodriguez mae a very tearful plea for forgiveness to the young women and their
punched her. for reasons unknown, amanda berry was able to give birth to her baby and castro forced knight to deliver it. investigators sifted through 200 pieces of evidence taken out of the house of horrors, one in particular is getting attention. details of a note written by castro in 2004 have surfaced. according to law enforcement forces, castro wrote about being abused by a family member in an attempt to justify his own horrid actions. according to woio reporter scott taylor, he says i m a sexual predator and writes about picking up three women. they are here against their will because they made a mistake of getting into a car with a total stranger. castro has been cooperating investigators and has confessed to some of his actions. his daughter arlene gave an
axiron. we are live in cleveland where the accused kidnapper and rapist ariel castro is behind bars and now he is talking. and who exactly is the man accused of heinous, inhumane crimes? we dig into the life, and the past, of ariel castro. first jodi arias was on suicide watch. this morning she is waking up in the psych ward. the latest developments in this ever-increasingly bizarre case. welcome back to this special edition of early start everyone. i m john berman in new york. i m zoraida sambolin live in cleveland for you this morning. prosecutors say ariel castro operated a private prison and a torture chamber inside this
emotional interview to abc news. i would like to say i m so, so sorry. i really want to see you, gina. and i want you to meet my kids. i m so sorry for everything. reporter: she wants to spend time with her family. you see balloons outside the home of gina dejesus and a blue tarp where she can go into her backyard and still have privacy. amanda berry is at her home with her daughter, recovering with her family and michelle knight remains in the hospital this morning. pamela, it s so great that the family put up the tarp so she can go outside and enjoy the fresh air. she s been lacking that for years. investigators are testing castro s dna to see if it may be linked to other crimes or other missing persons cases.