meaning their brains are a little different but then as he alluded to early trauma, being very, very mistreated can make that worse so to speak, that you can become more entitled, more self-referential and more likely to repeat the kind of thing that was done to you. is that an excuse? no, it s not. did he know right from wrong? he knew what he was doing was wrong. he just didn t care. he just wanted to do what he wanted to do and felt entitled to it. so in that sense you can make sense of it but really what we re talking about is not someone who can be in treatment and can be better, who is sick and needs care who is a victim in any way, who is an evil person essentially and needs to not be present in the rest of humanity let s talk about the victims, michelle knight made such a powerful statement. i can only imagine what that felt like to be standing in front of the man who held her captive for more than ten years. yes. and to make such a strong
if they d have put one of the chains around his neck i wonder how happy he would have felt. it wasn t a home. it was a dungeon. reporter: photos released of the three victims a day after their dramatic rescue, fragile and pale from years of confinement. friends of the victims outraged. that s straight villain, that s straight monster, that s just a person with no emotions so i hope he gets what he deserves. reporter: their abductor will spend the rest of his life mind bars, his victims looking healthier now smiles that capture their astonishing resilience as they close this horrific chapter of their lives. after 11 years i m finally being heard and it s liberating. reporter: not only did michelle knight speak, she actually stayed there through the entire sentencing until the very end, unlike the family representatives for the other two victims, and at the end the judge thanked her for her
confronted her tormenter. at thursday s sentence hearing ariel castro delivered what could only be described some rambling some 15-minute statement before sent away for good and where he ll spend his life plus 1,000 years behind bars. pamela brown is live in cleveland for us this morning. good morning, pamela. reporter: good morning to you, kate. i have to tell you it was jaw-dropping hearing what ariel castro had to say, even authorities who have been covering this case from the very beginning told me that it was stranger than they expected. the most powerful moment of the sentencing was when michelle knight boldly faced her tormenter as an emotionless castro looked on. you deserve to spend life in prison. i quo forgive you but i ll never forget. reporter: despite her tearful statement and the 937 counts
sentence, life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years for ariel castro. he insists he wasn t a monster. the hero yesterday michelle knight taken first and held the longest. she told him you took 11 years of my life away, i spent 11 years in hell, now your hell is just beginning. very brave moments from her in court yesterday. will you visit me in prison, james holmes posted that on a dating website before the movie theater shootings last year in colorado now a judge says prosecutors may use it as evidence in his trial. they claim the post is proof that holmes knew right from wrong and they hope it will torpedo his insanity defense. holmes has pleaded not guilty to killing 12 people and wounding many more. in florida a young boy was sucked into a drain pipe, dumped into a river and he survived. he traveled the length of three football fields and was underwater for more than a minute. that s a long time. the boy was at a party in ft.