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With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and applause from spectators, a house where three women were held captive and raped for a decade was demolished Wednesday, reduced to rubble in less than an hour and a half.
The demolition had the look of a neighborhood celebration, but some residents have been troubled by guilt for failing to notice tell-tale signs of the women's imprisonment, like windows boarded up from the inside and the kidnapper's practice of keeping visitors from going past the front room.
"It's haunted them, I think, in the sense of how could they not have known," said city Councilman Brian Cummins, who watched the demolition.
The home was torn down as part of the plea deal that spared Ariel Castro a possible death sentence and forced him to turn over the deed to the house and pay for it to be razed. He was sentenced last week to life in prison plus 1,000 years.
One of the imprisoned women, Michelle Knight, showed up early Wednesday before the work began. She made a brief statement and released balloons into the air.
"Dear Lord, give the missing people strength and power to know that they are loved," said Knight, who had rosary beads hanging from her neck. "We hear their cry. They are never forgotten in my heart. They are caterpillars, waiting to turn into a butterfly. They are never forgotten, they are loved."
Knight said the array of balloons "represents all the millions of children that were never found and the ones that passed away that were never heard."
There was applause as a relative of one victim represented the three and took the controls of the wrecking crane for the first smash into the top of the front wall. Later, as the house debris disappeared into the basement, church bells rang.
Police kept bystanders back to prevent souvenir hunting for the debris, which was carted off in trucks.
Rich Comp, 51, who used to live two doors from the Castro house, said he was sorry about the ordeal of the victims and hopes the demolition will help lift spirits.
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Demolition has begun on the Cleveland house where three women were held captive and raped over a decade. The house is being torn down as part of a deal that spared Ariel Castro a possible death sentence. He was sentenced last week to life in prison plus 1,000 years. One of the women imprisoned there, Michelle Knight, showed up early Wednesday before the demolition began. She made a brief statement and released some balloons. A crowd of onlookers cheered and clapped as the demolition began. Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty told them: "This was one evil guy." Prosecutors say Castro cried when he signed over the house deed and mentioned his "many happy memories" there with the women. The women escaped May 6 when one of them broke part of a door and yelled for help.
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CLEVELAND -- Demolition has begun on the Cleveland house where three women were held captive and raped over a decade.
The house is being torn down as part of a deal that spared Ariel Castro a possible death sentence. He was sentenced last week to life in prison plus 1,000 years.
One of the women imprisoned there, Michelle Knight, showed up early Wednesday before the demolition began. She made a brief statement and released some balloons.
A crowd of onlookers clapped as the demolition began.
Castro, who was sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years, without the possibility of parole repeatedly denied during his sentencing that he had tortured Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight after he kidnapped them between 2002 to 2004, holding them captive in his home until Berry managed to escape and alert a neighbor May 6.
Castro, 53, pleaded guilty to 937 charges, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping, to avoid the death penalty.
The house on Seymour Avenue is not only condemned, it represents the horrors the three survivors faced for 10 years.
"We didn't want some kind of gruesome, macabre shrine, if you will, that would get gawkers and curiosity seekers," said Joseph Frolik with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.
McGinty "wanted the property to come down and to come down quickly," Frolik said.
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The 1,000-foot perimeter safety zone for Saturday's demolition of the Pacific Gas & Electric steam power structures that critically injured a spectator was not large enough, a demolition expert said Sunday.
The early morning implosion of the long-abandoned plant's twin boilers sent steel and concrete debris into a crowd of onlookers 1,000 feet away in the Lowe's parking lot on Coffee Road.
The contractor didn't have a safety zone large enough," said Herb Duane, a consultant for hundreds of demolition and implosion projects around the world. "When you have a strong force and you're knocking down steel, it will shoot out much farther than if you did a regular demolition."
Duane, president of Duane Corp., in North Conway, N.H., said there is no industry standard for a safety zone, but 1,000 to 1,500 feet from the blast is common. The size of the zone is decided by the contractor, he said.
The most seriously injured spectator Saturday was flown to a Fresno hospital where one of his legs was amputated. He had not been publicly identified by late Sunday, although Bakersfield police said he was 43.
The 6 a.m. explosion sent debris across Coffee Road and a canal bordered by two chain-link fences, peppering spectators and vehicles.
Four other people suffered minor injuries.
Duane said similar demolitions usually occur at off hours in order to keep the number of spectators low.
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