Prince William expressed the desire to write three women who were imprisoned for ten years from 2003 to 2013 in Ariel Castro’s house of horrors in Ohio.
The Prince of Wales felt the urge to correspond with the victims of the kidnapping after it came to light how they had seen his marriage to Kate Middleton in April 2011 and that it “made them more utilizer.”
Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina Dejesus were imprisoned for ten years after Castro had locked them up in his house in Cleveland.
The women were saved in 2013, while Berry and Dejesus later gave an interview to the BBC.
Berry told her how she had looked at the royal wedding, where the event offered a short breathing break during her horrible test, in which she was raped five times a day and held in heavy chains, causing her skin to be cut open and she was bleeding.
Gina Dejesus (left) and Amanda Berry (right) told how they looked at the Royal Wedding in captivity in April 2011. The event caused a short breathing break during their horrible testing.
Prince William expressed the desire to write three women who were held imprisoned for ten years in Ariel Castro’s house of horrors in Ohio after they had heard the victims looked at his ceremony
Berry, who gave birth to a child by her abductor while she was held hostage, shared her preference for the royal marriage.
During the interview, with Dejesus by her side, Berry explained: “It was the most important thing on all the news channels, you know, and I liked to look at the news to know what was going on in the world.”
“I actually set my clock and got up at six o’clock. For me that was just something that … I don’t know, it’s lucky. They got married. And to see what her dress looked like and to see all the people there, it was just beautiful, “she added.
When she was asked about her opinion about the Duchess’s dress, she noticed: ‘I think it could have been a little more chic. She’s a princess! “
Kidnapping of survivors, Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus and Michelle Knight, depicted on this photo from February 2014, after their escape in 2013
A week after the interview with the victims of the kidnapping was broadcast, William wrote a letter to the BBC in which he asked for the details of the three women so that he could write them.
The details about Prince William who wanted to reach the women were shared by interviewed Kirsty Wark, presenter of Nieuwsnight.
‘Het was nederig om ze te interviewen. They said that they had watched the royal marriage of William and Kate on television. A week later I received a letter from Prince William, asking if he could write the girls. Dat was geweldig’, zei Wark tegen de BBC Radio times.
‘These kinds of stories are both terrible and wonderful. Amanda Berry got a baby through rape, then only six years old. In that concrete basement she made drawings of the outside world for her child, the streets. ”
The women could finally escape in May 2013 when the women were left alone at home and for the first time in ten years Berry did not lock her bedroom door. Castro’s house in Cleveland, where they were held imprisoned, shown above
Amanda Berry reunited herself after their escape with her sister Beth Serrano and daughter in Cleveland
House of horrors: photos from the inside Castro’s house show the miserable circumstances in which the women lived, where the windows were closed and they slept on bare, yellowed mattresses
The women were forced to live in miserable, filthy conditions, where they were chained in their rooms, locked their bedrooms, hardly eaten and got buckets to use as a bathroom.
Berry’s room she shared with her daughter Jocelyn is shown above
On 3 September 2013 he committed suicide in his prison. Shown above in 2013, during his conviction
Castro was suspended after being sentenced to life imprisonment
During the interview, Berry also shared her ambitions for a normal life and said: ‘I still want to get married and start a family. Je weet wel, die normaliteit.’
Ten years later, Berry now works for a local television station, Channel 8 in Ohio, where she presents a segment that focuses on cases of missing people.
Ariel Castro was sentenced to life imprisonment on 1 August 2013 after he was guilty of 937 cases of kidnapping and rape.
On September 3, 2013, a month after his sentence, he was found dead in his prison cell after he had committed suicide.
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