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Welcome back, everyone. john berman in new york. on your screen youre seeing the sentencing hearing for ariel castro. he is being sentenced today for the imprisonment, the torture, the assault of three women he (announcer) bring the adventure to their bowl with at. whole world of exciting flavors. kept in captivity for nearly ten years. on the stand right now is dr. friskies. feed the senses. you will lose 3 sets of keys 4 cell phones gregory sattholf, forensic 7 socks and 6 weeks of sleep but o...

Taken away from their parents and you can actually see the response of the whales to being separated. what happened? >> yeah. calves are stripped from their mothers for entertainment purposes and they actually grieve. they are put on oftentimes medication to get them over their grief. it is something that happens quite frequently and i think for me, it was very heart wrenching to know that. i think for a lot of the trainers who were there at seaworld still working there, its one of the hardest t...

2929.11, the purposes of the sentencing and 2929.12 seriousness of crime and recidivism factors. judge, as you well know, the purposes and principles of sentencing are to punish the offender and to protect the public. this case speaks volumes with regards to the defendants actions. if we look at the harm that has been caused to this victim, the only thing i need to tell you is 13,226 days of captivity. his actions of luring these victims, vulnerable victim, a victim that wanted to see her son, h...

Berman in new york. on the screen, were watching the sentencing hearing for arie cleveland right now. were hearing a great deal of dramatic testimony about what went on those nearly t three wo >> michelle knight, gina in captivity. how stand right now is dr. dejesus and amend amanda berry. frank m. oa on something called >> is that how they appeared to you that day? >> no. stockholm syndrome. >> what was different? ths state that sometimes >> as i mentioned, the women have made dramatic recoveri...

Puppies and then keeping her held captive for the next 11 years. luring the other two young women, their ages 16 and 14, that is something you need to take into consideration. under the guise of coming to see his own flesh and blood, his daughter and then holding them in captivity for the next ten years for amanda and nine years for gina. he locked the doors. he kept them chained. he used dirty socks when they screamed for help. there was duct tape and motorcycle helmets. thats what you need to ...

They have a long road of recovery. >> thank you very much. one of castros victims, amanda berry, gave birth to his daughter while in captivity. tens of thousands of pregnancy are a result of rape, and sharing custody with their attacker is a very real and frightening possibility. ted rowlands has this "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: when ariel castro asked to see the 6-year-old girl that he fathered by raping amanda berry, a judge ruled no, that it was inappropriate. the idea, that a mons...

Also dr. jeff gardere, a psychologist, who can help us ferret through some of this very difficult testimony. on the stand right now is dr. gerald maloney, he was the e.r. doctor at the cleveland hospital. of course, these three victims were brought to that hospital for treatment after they were rescued from the house of horrors. lets listen to his testimony. >> yes, they had forensic exams done by sexual assault nurse examiner. >> and when you say "they", are you referring to all four patients? ...

For ariel castro. you can see him right there in the orange sitting at the defense table and about 25 feet away from mr. castro right now, not in this frame, but in that room, and we have seen her is michelle knight, one of the women who survived the captivity, nearly ten years in that house that was a prison. it was a torture chamber. 99 feet of chains he used over the years to restrain these women. he rigged alarms on doors to make sure they couldnt escape. he put helmets on them and just afte...

Stomping them on their stomachs. he dictated. he dictated when they ate, when they slept, when they could talk, when they could interact. he dictated when they could go to the bathroom, and if that commode would even be empty based on their defiant behavior. he tormented them by allowing them to watch their vigils where members of our community circled around the families looking for them on their anniversary dates, and he even had the audacity to attend them and to talk to the family members kn...

And said he would do that a little later in the day. perhaps hes waiting till the women and their families are there in the courtroom so he can address them. havent seen a sign of them. we have been told that michelle knight is likely to be there. she is likely to speak. what you have just been hearing is the defense attorney saying, we dont want to play this out in front of the public. we dont want too much information to company out. and they were arguing it would be damaging to the victims. i...