CLEVELAND — The first of three women who were kidnapped and held for a decade in a Cleveland home described kidnapper Ariel Castro as cowardly when he died in prison in what was ruled a suicide.
“He took a coward’s way out,” Michelle Knight said in a taped interview Wednesday on the “Dr Phil” show.
It was the second part of an interview in which Knight spoke of being beaten, chained and sexually and emotionally abused from the time she was kidnapped in 2002 until she and the other two women escaped this year.
Knight was kidnapped when she was about 20, and said Castro told her repeatedly that he could abuse her because nobody would care.
She also described her reaction upon realizing she was finally free.
“I wanted to kiss the ground that I was walking on and thank God for letting me get out of that hell hole,” she told the TV host.
