2. Neighbors reported naked, leashed girls in Castro's backyard
Police were called to Ariel Castro's house at least twice since he bought the property in 1992 — once for a
domestic violence arrest in 1993, and in January 2004, when Castro, a school bus driver until recently,
left a child on a bus while he went to have dinner at Wendy's, telling the kid to "lay down." But neighbors say they called the the cops more times than that.
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Israel Lugo, who lives two houses down from Castro, says he, his family, and neighbors
called the police on Castro three times in 2011 and 2012 — after his sister saw a woman and infant banging on a half-boarded-over window, again after his mom saw Castro unload an unusually large amount of McDonald's food from his school bus to the house, and once more after neighbors across the street saw three men controlling three naked young women on leashes, crawling on all fours in Castro's backyard. Another neighbor, Elsie Cintron, says her daughter witnessed a similar incident, one woman crawling naked in Castro's backyard several years ago, but when she called the police "they didn't take it seriously." Lugo says the police responded to his family's calls, but left when nobody answered the door.
"Everyone in the neighborhood did what they had to do,"
Lupe Collins tells The Associated Press. "The police didn't do their job."
