US Abductor, Ariel Castro, Jailed For 1, 000years

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One of three women who were kidnapped, imprisoned and repeatedly raped in an Ohio home for more than 10 years, told the perpetrator he would "face hell for eternity" as he was jailed for life on Thursday.

Michelle Knight, giving her victim impact statement before her abuser, Ariel Castro, in a Cleveland courtroom, told him that her life was just beginning while his was now over.

The 53-year-old former school bus driver, who pleaded guilty last week to 937 criminal charges under a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 1,000 years.

Knight, 32, wept as she told him: "You took 11 years of my life away and I have got it back. I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning. I will overcome all that has happened, but you will face hell for eternity."

She said she had cried every night and that her years in captivity had "turned into eternity". She was the only one of the victims to speak at the hearing. Relatives of the other two women read statements on their behalf.

Knight was abducted by Castro. In 2002, at the age of 20, she was lured by him into his house in Seymour Avenue, Cleveland, in the US, with the promise of a puppy for her son.

Castro has pleaded guilty to charges that he repeatedly raped Knight and two other victims, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. He also forced Knight to miscarry after he impregnated her.

Castro later gave a rambling partial apology to his victims, telling the court that he knew that what he had done was wrong but also claiming that his captives were not tortured and that most of the sex was consensual.

He said: "I believe I am addicted to porn to the point that it really makes me impulsive and I just don't realise what I'm doing is wrong. I'm not a violent predator … I'm not a monster, I'm a normal person." He added that he had not planned the kidnapping of Knight.

Michael Russo, the judge, dismissed his claims of the women living a happy life with him. "I'm not sure there's anyone in America that would agree with you."

Law enforcement agents also told the court on Thursday that Castro played Russian roulette with his victims, keeping them chained and repeatedly raping them.

Andrew Burke, an FBI agent, said Castro turned his home into a prison by creating a makeshift alarm system and chaining the women inside bolted bedrooms.

Bedroom windows were boarded shut from the inside with heavy cupboard doors, and door knobs were removed and replaced with multiple locks, he said. The house was split so as to make it more secure and hide the existence of rooms.

Burke also said Castro would occasionally pay his victims after raping them. But he then made them pay him if they wanted something special from the store.

Dave Jacobs, a detective, said he talked to Castro a few days after the women escaped and claimed the accused said, "I knew what I did was wrong".

The court also heard testimony from Barbara Johnson, a police officer who helped locate the women in the house. She said one of the captives launched herself into an officer's arms, and another was initially too afraid to leave her room.

The officer added that all three women were frightened even after being taken out of the house. But they soon began sharing details on the horrors they had endured, including being starved and beaten, the officer said.

Andrew Harasimchuk, a detective, said the women spoke of a pattern of physical, sexual and emotional assaults over the years. He said they had been abducted after Castro offered them a ride and that each was chained in his basement and sexually assaulted within a few hours of being kidnapped.

The victims – including Amanda Berry, aged 16 when she was kidnapped in April 2003 and Georgina DeJesus, 14 when abducted in April 2004 – escaped on 6 May this year, when Berry kicked out part of a door, aided by a neighbour alerted by her screams for help.Berry gave birth to a child, now six years old. On the day the daughter was born, Castro raped one of the other women, who had helped deliver the baby.

Other pregnancies never went to full term. Knight told prosecutors that she became pregnant five times but was starved and beaten up by Castro so she would miscarry.

Berry, 27, made a surprise onstage appearance at a rap concert last weekend, and DeJesus, 23, has made a few televised comments.

Knight, 32, appeared with Berry and DeJesus in a video early last month thanking the community for their support.

Knight also sent police a handwritten letter thanking them for their help in collecting cards and gifts for the women. In the note, Knight told Cleveland's second district commander, Keith Sulzer, "life is tough, but I'm tougher!"