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For eternity. >> reporter: a new glimpse into what the women endured, the rusty chains, ariel castro used to restrain them. often for weeks at a time with little food. we learned they all kept diaries documenting their ordeal fearing they would never make it out alive. in a bizarre, rambling, 16-minute statement, castro implied he was the real victim, insooising he never abused any of the women. >> im not a violent predator that theyre trying to make me look like a monster but im not a monster. ...

Believes its their right to control them all the time. and this is such a bizarre case. i mean, his point about consensual sex, there is no way to mix 90 pounds of chains and captivity for 11 years and consensual sex. those are completely preposterous. >> i want to play the one moment when there was a tiny, slight pin prick of empathy in me as i watched this awful statement was him talking about himself, saying that he had been a victim of sexual abuse, himself. take a listen. >> ive stated befo...

And tortured three young women he held captive for nearly a decade. astro is expected to speak in court today. his sister said will show, the quote, the other side of ariel castro. new court documents lay out his crimes in excruciating details. the women were kept chains in rooms. they ate one day and they were repeatedly raped. one woman gave birth to ariel castros child. prosecutors said that it was important to detail castros crimes. while in court today, castro could come face to face with o...

Where gina and mi we had heard all along, wolf, that amanda was treated a little bit better than the other two and that michelle knight took the brunt of of their abuse. in their room we saw the rusty chains, 99 feet along according to the investigator today. we learned there was just a cutout in the ceiling to give them a little bit of ventilation. we also saw the pictures of t s this -- we were able to see for ourselves, add color to the picture weve been trying to understand. we learned the d...

Disturbing details about this briefly from mr. castro, who mans near ten-year reign of began to apologize to the women terror over the three women he held captive. he held for so long. we are hearing things really lets listen to what he said. weve never heard before. he used 99 feet of chains. >> i would like to apologize. he placed motorcycle helmets on can i do that now? his captives. >> yes, you may do that now. he played games with these women where he put a loaded gun to their head. as i sa...

Ten years, chains. why were we not hearing the prosecution call this a civil rights violation? there is a law in ohio that if you target people based on who they are in society, based on race, gender, ethnicity, whatever, that is a civil rights violation. this should have been framed as such. it also in my opinion should have been prosecuted at least a piece of it under the human trafficking law, which is brand-new in ohio as of 2010. why pass a law about human trafficking and not use it for thi...

Rap concert. the whole crowd stood up to them. is it good for them to become quasi celebrities in the public eye? whats the pattern for them? high profile case. how do they find that normal balance in life and is it just best to get away or is it best to go out in front of the public view? >> i think that is a good question, luke, and i think thats something that theyre going to have to deal with. realize, its only been three months since these women were released and there may be something on t...

Gratuitous and unnecessary. do you feel that you had to -- >> i think it was important for the court to know that the restraints werent just psychological, it was also physical and it was also daily. they were chained multiple times multiple places only really released from the chains to be allowed to be taken down to the bathroom when he saw fit, rechained as well as the other twist ties and other bondage items that were used. i think it was important for the court to hear about the extent that...

Mind-boggling that these guys are even given an opportunity to speak when they denied their victims that opportunity for so long. but i think michelle has shown a remarkable amount of grace and a remarkable amount of dignity throughout her ordeal, from the moment that she has been released until now she stood up very tall, and she has made us all very proud of her. >> and he talked about harmony in that home. wendy, this is a place with an alarm on the back door, a place where we saw 100 feet of...

The game, all of that straight ahead unless breaking news changes everything. first from fox at 3:00. there was harmony in the house where he held three women captive in chains for more than a decade, and the sex he had with them was mostly consentual. those incredible claims from ariel castro in court today as he faced one of the three survivors of his abuse who told him his time in hell is just beginning. all of that before big sentenced to life in prison no life of parole. and today relativ...