Madeleine McCann’s parents have probably got their hopes up as a result of this 
Oh, but they are not pretending. Only humans can do such things. We’re capable of the best and of the worst imaginable, and a couple of steps beyond in each direction.
If anyone wants to donate to the victims, and not via a t-shirt site, here’s The Cleveland Courage Fund.
So…uh…haven’t seen any discussion of why the two brothers were released and not charged with anything.
If they lived in the house, they must have known something. I once lived in a shared housing arrangement with people I didn’t know, and one of them moved his girlfriend into his room “secretly.” He was pretty pissed when the homeowner called him on it, and wanted to know which one of us ratted her out.
Dude, it’s painfully obvious when someone else is living in one’s house.
How could these brothers not have known? How come the police, who always seem anxious to charge someone with “obstructing justice” or “aiding and abetting,” have so quickly determined the brothers were not somehow involved?
Is there some detail I haven;t read that would explain this?
I don’t think the brothers lived in the house. But still, if they ever came over…
I’ve been wondering the same thing. If they didn’t live there, why did we see their mug shots? Were they arrested or not?
From what I’ve read, they did not live in the house, and they were arrested at the same time as their brother because when police tracked him down, they were all together, and the two brothers had outstanding warrants for their arrests.
Whether or not they knew what was going on in that house, it’s pretty easy to determine if they participated in the abuse or ever even saw the women, simply by asking the women.
I can’t understand why they’re bleating on about Stockholm Syndrome. FFS if you beat and starve people they will have do what you want. There’s so far been no sign that the girls bonded with this bastard.
I honestly have to wonder if that’s because the three women had each other to keep things real.
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I dunno, if my child were missing, I think the fear that she was spending 10 years in the captivity of a sexual predator would be just as bad as the fear that she was dead. It’s too horrific for words. I’m usually somewhat sympathetic toward criminals but in this case I’m really not. I really don’t care what happens to him in prison.
I feel the same way. Alot of times I do feel bad for criminals because I wonder what makes them that way but in this case i’m at a loss of words for what he did to those women.
I don’t feel bad for people like this dude, but I certainly don’t wish abuse on him either. The US prison system is a disgrace.
The DeJesus family are apparently willing to take in Michelle - that’s nice.
Well, no, I don’t wish abuse on him either. I generally don’t wish abuse on anyone. I just feel like my heart is getting harder for these types of crimes. There’s something about this that makes it really difficult to feel any empathy for the perpetrator.
I assume he has to be sociopathic in order to do this to people, but so far this doesn’t look like illness or madness, it looks like he simply wanted to keep some girls for his personal use.
I’ve been trying to think of something unpleasant to say about him, but everything I come up with seems inadequate.
I’m running out of any sympathy for Michelle’s mother, who seems to have finally gotten herself up here, but Michelle doesn’t want to see her. The woman seems to have the worst luck ever with telephones (please note I am in full snark mode here) as whenever she says she has called the CPD she says the detectives have just left for the day or don’t return her calls ( and I’m talking this week, not ten years ago). She was never around through the years when the police called her to find out if Michelle was still missing, or never returned their calls. And it would seem to me that if your daughter, who was a twin, disappeared, that you might just think she might have gone to stay with the twin brother you had kicked out six years prior. Even if you didn’t want to talk to him yourself, surely you could ask the cops investigating her disappearance to talk to him. Apparently Michelle was very glad to see her brother, who immediately went to the hospital when he found out his sister had been found…the twin sister no one bothered to tell him had been lost. Poor girl.
He didn’t know his sister was missing for over a decade? How very lonely and sad this poor woman must have felt. Having no real hope to be found and then when she was her family had moved away and her brother didn’t know she was missing? She is a courageous beautiful girl who needs all the support she can receive.
Yep. Mom kicked him out of the house when he and Michelle were 14, and never spoke to him again, according to him. No word on where he went, who he stayed with, whether he continued with school or what. No word on whether he and Michelle kept in touch in the six years before she was grabbed.