Their bathrooms were plastic trash buckets left next to their bare mattresses which festered for weeks.
Their bodies ached from the heavy, rusting tow truck chains which Castro wrapped around them constantly until the last year or two of their captivity.Īmanda Berry (center) and Gina DeJesus (left) with interview Robin Roberts revealed in their new memoir, published last week, how Ariel Castro raped them multiple times a day while they were held captive in his Cleveland home Both Amanda and Michelle wrote that they watched when Castro slammed Michelle Knight, who is just 4'7', into walls. They were all physically abused, hit on the head and slapped around the face. He lied to the women, telling them that he didn't have sex with the others in order to turn them against each other. He then moved her to an upstairs bedroom and chained her to a radiator, adding zip ties along with the rusty chain. In one of the diary-like entries in the 300-page book, Amanda described how, a day after she was abducted which was her 17th birthday, Castro forced her to shower with him and then locked her to a pole in the basement with chains around her stomach. 'That was your first time!''īoth Gina and Amanda said Castro raped them up to five times a day, forcing them to tell him they 'want it, love it' and that he was 'sexy'.
'''We gotta celebrate!' he says, standing up and pulling his pants back on.
