No, not Gitmo or Israeli jails....
"Man who allegedly had dungeon, coffin pleads guilty; Authorities found a dungeon and child-sized coffin in his basement" by Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | Globe Correspondent, May 07, 2013
A 40-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom, most recently living in Worcester, pleaded guilty Monday to charges of soliciting the kidnapping of a child and distribution of child pornography after authorities found a dungeon and child-sized coffin in his basement, the US attorney’s office said.
Geoffrey Portway engaged in numerous online chats with many like-minded individuals to trade child pornography, share photos of children personally known to him, and discuss a mutual interest in abducting, brutally raping, murdering, and eating the children, according to details of a plea agreement, said Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz.
I'm speechless by the thought, and thankful you have chosen to come here, readers.
Related: Worcester man arrested on child pornography charges is linked to international network
Pornography suspect due in court
Also see: Cannibalizing My Globe
And we are running out of food with the Pacific and Gulf having been destroyed due to radiation and oil/chemical contamination.
The investigation, which began in Milford in 2010, has expanded to Europe and beyond, said Bruce M. Foucart, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston. “We have been able to rescue 160 children and arrest 51 perpetrators worldwide,” he said.
Portway was arrested July 29, 2012, said DiIorio-Sterling. Under the terms of a plea agreement, Portway pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit a crime of violence (kidnapping a child) and distribution and possession of child pornography, she said.
He will be sentenced on Aug. 2 to between 216 and 327 months in prison, a lifetime of supervised release, and will be registered as a Level 3 sex offender, according to the US attorney’s spokeswoman.
That's what, 18-27 years?
Portway will also be deported after serving his sentence.
Oh, good, glad to see it. Bon voyage, cretin.
In a stark development, DiIorio-Sterling said that when federal agents, along with state and local police, executed a federal search warrant at Portway’s Worcester residence to seize computers and digital devices containing the evidence in July of 2012, they discovered the dungeon.
The soundproof room contained a homemade child’s coffin with exterior locking devices and a steel table top with steel rings, presumably for restraints.
I'm damn near in tears and find it hard to believe there is such evil on this earth.
Through his online chats, Portway solicited several people, including a man named Michael Arnett of Kansas, for help in abducting a child, DiIorio-Sterling said.
Portway also repeatedly solicited Arnett to kidnap a child for him, whom he later intended to rape, kill, and eat, she said.
Arnett has has since pleaded guilty in Kansas to sexual exploitation of a child for the purposes of producing child pornography, the spokeswoman said.
Maybe we out to eat all the perverts, war criminals, banking looters, and corporate raiders. I'll bet no one would go hungry then.
--more--"
I'm surprised the article did not mention the Diduca and Mikelsons connections.
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Photo Led to Child Pornography Ring
Maybe some names have been omitted to protect the guilty.
Look, another dragon!
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Houston's House of Horrors
Globe never went back in there it was so scary.
Time for "an emotional last act to a traumatizing story."
"Castro, who was born in Puerto Rico, said he could read and understand English well but had trouble with comprehension.
‘‘My addiction to pornography and my sexual problem has really taken a toll on my mind.’’ He later said he had been a sexual abuse victim as a child, but the judge cut him off.
Another ill you can blame on the you-know-whos (rhymes with), per protocol 14, rule #5.
Near the end of the 2 1/2-hour hearing, the judge accepted the pleas and declared Castro guilty. Sentencing was set for Thursday....
--more--"
Related: ‘I’m not a monster,’ Cleveland kidnapper says
"Cleveland house where 3 women were held is razed" by Timothy Williams | New York Times, August 08, 2013
The Cleveland house where three kidnapped women were raped and tortured for nearly a decade was demolished by the city Wednesday as part of a plea agreement that sent their abductor, Ariel Castro, to prison last week for life.
Has the feel of an Israeli jail and Palestinian apartment building all in one.
The demolition, which took about an hour and a half, was greeted by cheers from a group that included one of his victims, Michelle Knight, who spoke briefly before the work began and released a batch of yellow balloons to remember other kidnapping victims yet to be rescued.
“Why it was important to be here today is because no one was there for me when I was missing,” said Knight, 32, who the Cleveland police have acknowledged spending relatively little time looking for because they believed she had moved away from the area.
The two-story white house on Seymour Street, which since the women’s rescue had been fenced in, its windows and doors boarded over, had already become a draw to the curious, with motorists driving slowly past day and night, according to residents and the police.
It's become a tourist trap?
Hey, better enjoy it while it lasts; that's what the economy is based on now.
The sentencing deal with Cuyahoga County prosecutors required Castro, 53, to plead guilty to 937 charges, including two aggravated murder charges for terminating pregnancies after raping the women. The arrangement allowed him to avoid a possible death sentence. Castro also agreed to hand over the title to the east Cleveland house — so it could be demolished — which prosecutors said they feared would have become a macabre tourist attraction.
The women — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Knight — were kidnapped separately by Castro between 2002 and 2004. At the time they were abducted, Berry was 16, DeJesus was 14, and Knight was in her early 20s. They were freed in May after a neighbor heard cries for help from Castro’s house and Berry was able to kick through and crawl out of a door of the house with a child who had been fathered by Castro.
Although bulldozers made quick work of the house, Castro had turned parts of it into a veritable dungeon, in which he used 92 pounds of locks and chains to restrain the women, who were often attached to a pole in the house’s basement.
Prosecutors at Castro’s sentencing hearing displayed photographs showing an elaborate system of alarms on doors and a motorcycle helmet that Castro forced the women to wear when he raped them.
He dehumanized them with some sick fetish?
Some windows were boarded shut and door knobs removed, replaced with locks. The images showed that two rooms on the second floor, which were used by the women when they were not being restrained, contained personal items, including stuffed animals and a child’s drawings.
Officials in Cleveland have said that in addition to Castro’s house, which had been in foreclosure proceedings, that two other vacant houses on the block are also scheduled to be torn down within the next several weeks.
Not that they should be held responsible for this, but WhereTF was the bank?
Officials are still exploring plans for the property, which could include a park.
--more--"
