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Source: Detroit Free PressSept.存倉 06--By now, you've long known that Ariel Castro, the monster from Cleveland who held three young women captive for the better part of 10 years, committed suicide in an Ohio jail cell.Castro used the bedsheets in his prison cell to hang himself just one month into his life-plus-1,000-years' sentence, ending his own suffering.The news has been tugging at me for days -- the same way the initial stories about Castro's house of horrors did back in May.My mind keeps going back to a picture of Amanda Berry, who managed to escape from her prison through sheer determination, screaming through the door for help for herself, the two other women he held captive, and for the little girl she bore to Castro in that awful house on Seymour Street.I keep thinking about that 6-year-old child, and what Berry must be telling her now about her father, now that he's dead, now that he took the easy way out.What does that little girl remember of Castro, and how will the narrative play out for her as she grows up? This little girl shared a room with her mom with a Pocahontas poster on the wall, and knew only of life in a place where there were boards over the windows, chains, and locks on every door. Will Berry tell her that her father was a beast of a man with no compassion?Footage of an FBI interview with Castro in the hours after his arrest emerged this morning. In it, Castro speaks about how he used Berry's cell phone in 2003 to call her mother and tell her she was still alive."I think I said something, that I have her daughter, and that she's OK and that she's my wife now -- something like that, probably not the exact words," he says on the video. He 迷你倉old investigators he hung up before Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, could engage him in conversation.Miller never stopped looking for her daughter, who was taken on the eve of her 17th birthday while walking home from her job at Burger King. Miller died in 2006, still heartbroken. Perhaps she kept on looking and never gave up hope because of that single phone call. We'll never know.Castro also told investigators in the video footage that it was the little girl he had with Berry who persuaded him to leave a bedroom door unlocked that day in May when Berry was able to get to the front of the house; it was just enough to have her cries heard for the first time in a decade.Courage is all I can think about. In the face of a violent man who tortured and beat her mother, this little girl talked Castro into making what would become his biggest mistake.Yet in the end, cowardice is all that Castro had in him.-- Related story: Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle Knight: 'I spent 11 years in hell'Though he stole years of their lives, none of the women he tortured advocated that Castro should be put to death. No, that would be too kind for a man who starved them, who beat them, who raped them. After all he did to them, Castro could manage only 30 days in prison, life in far better conditions than he offered them.Now that he's gone, we can only pray that his daughter draws from the incredible legacy of strength and love of her mother and late grandmother, and that she won't remember the cruelty or the cowardice of the man who fathered her.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Detroit Free Press Visit the Detroit Free Press at .freep.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉