An estimated amount of 2,300 children are missing everyday in the United States. (NISMART) Castro committed many crimes from kidnapping, rape, sexual assault, and attempted murder. Kidnapping happens when someone is abducted without the authority of a legal guardian with the plan of keeping, killing, or asking for ransom for that person. Everyday kids go missing or are kidnapped all around the world whether it’s by strangers or family members. One moment the person you love can be standing next to you and the next they disappear without you even realizing it. Kidnapping has no age restrictions it can be from babies to adults and it mainly occurs more to females than to males, usually happens in the outdoor. The abductor doesn’t even realize
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She also remembers him telling her his sexual attraction of other girls who had already been kidnapped. “I wish I had gotten to that little JonBenet Ramsey first. Another time he made the same king of comment about Elizabeth Smart.” (Knight, 2014) There was no escaping for her, she felt vulnerable that someone would think that it was okay to do this to someone. Following her abortions, she recalls holding onto one of the five times she had a miscarriage. She felt, “ horrible that someone can sit there and make somebody abort a child and put it in their hands and say don’t you wish that baby was alive.” (Knight, 2014) He would blame her for the things he would do and say that she made him do what he did. Castro would rape Knight 6 to 7 times a day and not a single day went by that he wouldn’t beat her and push her down the stairs. The first time she was able to see herself in the mirror she didn’t feel like herself and Castro wouldn’t let her shower at all, she would smell, that at times it would make her gag. Her face was pale and bruised because she barely saw sunlight coming through the windows because he would have all the windows covered she wouldn’t be able to escape. After the other two victims would be kidnapped she says she would be the only that would be physically abuse, that she saw. Castro would constantly tell her how ugly she was and that she had no meaning as a person. Knight would be chained from her arms and ankles, which would connect through each victim. The walls had holes at the bottom and each room was next to each other for the same purpose, so that each chain would go through each victim. She was connected with the third victim Georgina
She also remembers him telling her his sexual attraction of other girls who had already been kidnapped. “I wish I had gotten to that little JonBenet Ramsey first. Another time he made the same king of comment about Elizabeth Smart.” (Knight, 2014) There was no escaping for her, she felt vulnerable that someone would think that it was okay to do this to someone. Following her abortions, she recalls holding onto one of the five times she had a miscarriage. She felt, “ horrible that someone can sit there and make somebody abort a child and put it in their hands and say don’t you wish that baby was alive.” (Knight, 2014) He would blame her for the things he would do and say that she made him do what he did. Castro would rape Knight 6 to 7 times a day and not a single day went by that he wouldn’t beat her and push her down the stairs. The first time she was able to see herself in the mirror she didn’t feel like herself and Castro wouldn’t let her shower at all, she would smell, that at times it would make her gag. Her face was pale and bruised because she barely saw sunlight coming through the windows because he would have all the windows covered she wouldn’t be able to escape. After the other two victims would be kidnapped she says she would be the only that would be physically abuse, that she saw. Castro would constantly tell her how ugly she was and that she had no meaning as a person. Knight would be chained from her arms and ankles, which would connect through each victim. The walls had holes at the bottom and each room was next to each other for the same purpose, so that each chain would go through each victim. She was connected with the third victim Georgina