I’m just roughly quoting him on what he said about himself in court (it’s the second video in [this BBC article][1]):
“I’m not a monster, I’m a normal person, I am just sick, I have an addiction”
From the note and especially his testimony, he seems like an incredibly weak-willed and self-centered person. His explanations for why he did it suggest he knew what he was doing was wrong to some extent, but the way he talks you’d think he felt doing things like buying them a cake on anniversaries of the day he kidnapped them (no, really) and occasionally giving them token amounts of freedom somehow made up for what he did. He asks the court to pity him and the girls to forgive him, because “we had a lot of harmony going on in that home”. He seems to want us to see him as a victim or an outside observer of what he became and what he did.
[1]: Lawyer for Ariel Castro says suicide watch was needed - BBC News[quote=“IMB, post:135, topic:8944”]
At the end of the day, I hope that the girls will find peace in that they will never have to see him interviewed on TV or see his face again.
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Absolutely. It seems they are starting to get over it and not having a drawn out trial where they would have to go into detail about their experience with people they didn’t know was very important to them. I hope this will help them to find closure.
