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single scream? it's just very odd. there's folks in that cleveland neighborhood who said they hope that house is demolished. i agree with them. that should be burned down. >> he did expand on that. he said he's a very happy guy. he's not angry. he does have an addiction, he has an addiction to porn. we're still left with a lot of questions, ari, in terms of why he did this, why he treated these women like this. i feel like i still have a lot of questions. >> yeah, i think that's right. the trial process or in this case the plea process gives you this window. we're watching it here in the news. people around the country are watching a case that as you were saying was obviously extremely troubling, extremely inhumane, extremely immoral and what we see is the perspective of a defendant. the defendant has the right to address the court and to address his accusers. you see that sort of delusional view of this as some sort of quasi consensual family life,
michelle knight to get up there in court, to face her tormentor and the entire world watching her. i just -- i can't even imagine the courage and the strength that took. what a powerful, powerful person that is. it is an incredible thought. jay was talking about how delusional castro is here and how he kept interrupting. he says that he's sick, he's not a monster, that this wasn't rape it was consensual. let's actually take a listen to a little of that. >> you may not have liked the wording or the terminology. that's it. okay? maybe i can tell them to you. >> the violent part, you made it sound like i forced myself on to them. >> by virtue of your plea, that's what you did. you pled guilty to that and by virtue of your plea you raped
that kind of language obviously not accurate, not fair, and then as crystal was eluding to, it's a piece of this, there has been a movement in the courts to have more of a space for victim's perspectives and rights. it ranges in different states. in many places you see a process for the stroim address the court, address the accuser. obviously here you have the judge making the ultimate binding decision about sentencing. this man is going away for life, but the victim's views come out. as many people have commented and now in the social media world you saw immediate reaction to herr. this woman having been through so much having a chance to stand up for herself. we're just observers here, you don't know everything that's going on, but we hope it's part of a healing process for her. >> yeah. i want to go back to luke's point about what it says about our societies that these women could be living there in
clint, are you able to hear us? >> i think we've lost -- >> yeah, i can. >> go ahead, clint. >> yeah. well, i think it was a very important moment for them, but even that moment that we all wanted so much for these young women, especially for the young woman in court would somewhat cancel out what this monster -- he says he's not a monster. he should be the living definition of monster in a dictionary. for him to say that i didn't really kidnap them, they kind of went on their own. any physical contact i had with them, most of it was consensual. i never beat them or heard that as we try to put some type of civilization around the acts of a monster, that was still a challenge for them. he still took away from them the truth which is to stand up and say i did horrific things and am responsible for it. i'm sorry.
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