
The remnants of the Ariel Castro house are grim, indiscernable and oddly lacking in any substatial context surrounding the events that occured there.
A neighbor of the alleged kidnapper, who asked CNN for anonimity, took photos of the conditions of the backyard and released them to media for the purpose of making light of the state of the house.
While the photos lack any evidence -- a bicylce, a spool of barbed wire and chains littering the already cluttered yard -- it gives a glimpse of the conditions in which Castro and his victims lived.
The windows are boarded up and tarps hang across the garage in what appears to be an attempt to hide the atrocities commited within from the outside world.
The 52-year-old is accused of kidnapping Michelle Knight, now 32, in August 2002; Amanda Berry, now 27, a day before her 17th birthday in April 2003; and Gina DeJesus, now 23, in April 2004. He was charged for four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.
A child, 6, found to be Berry's daughter was identified as being fathered by Castro, according to DNA testing.
The photos were taken after Berry's 911 phone call in which police arrived and dismantled Castro's front door in the house located on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Univision reported.
The women were allowed outside only twice and were treated like slaves. He often tested the three, pretending to leave and watching what they would do. He severely punished their disobedience until they feared him enough to allow this torment for about 10 years.
A family friend of DeJesus told CNN that the woman is in good spirits, bouncing about the house, requesting to see friends, but refusing to go outside for fear of being bombarded by people.
Castro remains in a Cleveland jail on an $8 million bond. He is under constant vigiliance by suicide watch teams. He does not have the privileges of regular inmates and is not allowed to interract with them. He is checked on every 10 minutes.
His family has since reliquinished contact with him, calling him a monster and wishing the worst on him.
"I hope they give him a long sentence and that they don't feed him. I hope he dies in that little room just like that without food," Onil and Pedro, Ariel's brothers, told Univision. "I hope he slowly suffers just like those women did because to simply take him out of this world would be too easy. They should throw him into a cell like a savage dog."
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