My reaction is to imagine what kind of penalty would be just for that Castro mope in Cleveland. I'd better not go into detail on that, it's pretty nasty stuff.

He seems to think his victims deserved some of it because they were naive enough to get in the car with him. People like that always find a way to blame somebody other than themselves.

For myself, it's only triggered anger. That could be due to the gender difference between me and the victims. I get more disturbed by hearing about abductions of little boys...having been under the thumb of psychos in my youth. I've been left with a deep and intense hatred of bullies and people who abuse little kids. In fact I hate cowards in general...wife beaters, rapists, child abusers, animal abusers...to me they're nothing but filth, and they can keep their phony excuses.

I don't watch the news, it's too depressing. When I think about all the kids who are being abused it makes me sick and I want to cry. There are many kids in my neighborhood who don't have good parents, I makes me sick inside. I feel powerless to stop the insanity.

The women who were held captive and abused by the Puerto Rican Ariel Castro will have a difficult journey ahead of them. Fortunately, they are no longer in his control. I don't know how they are going to manage to regain themselves, but I wish the best for them.

I am angry because what I hear in the news is the same old story over again, a story not dissimilar from my own and that of others who faced years of horror at the hands of our abusers. There were reports to the police over the years from neighbors of Ariel Castro, but the police have concocted all kinds of elaborate excuses for why they did nothing in response to the phone calls. It's sickening. When it comes to horrific abuse, the police are useless in stopping it. In San Diego where I live, the police themselves commit as many crimes as the criminals they are supposed to be stopping from committing crimes. Several officers here have been convicted for child molestation and other sex crimes. Police officers are too busy forming alliances with the criminals while ignoring the pleas for help from victims. Again, it's sickening.

I don't expect a lot from the police either. They have done a better job here with abusive spouses lately, but recently for example one of them got caught beating up a young man and robbing him in my city. That was this week. Who knows how many others got the same treatment and didn't report it for fear of a worse beating?

So many children are being abused, it goes on and on. I try not to think too much about it. There's also the spousal abuse and animal abuse. I find that all I want to do is work in my garden and not think about the rest of the world.

i am surprised if the cops do anything for abused kids sometimes they do and other times they dont. social workers are bad few of them are good but they make child abuse a media circus and i would hear in the streets how these people feel sorry for the kids yet in the same sentence blamed the kids for the kind of parents they have "chosen." who chooses their parents during birth? i saw how some of these people were agreeing to that how it's the kids' fault for making the parents so angry/violent towards them because they deserved the abuse.

i got so angry i left the area i couldnt believe what i was hearing. that is the same shit people throw into my face about my parents like i expected it to happen, oh thats how parents are, etc.