Late Ohio captor Ariel Castro's prison logs falsified



Prison guards faked logs about their monitoring of
Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro in the hours before he
killed himself last month, officials say.
An inquiry has found video footage that indicated two
guards failed to make checks at least eight times on the
day Castro was found hanged in his cell.
In August, Castro was sentenced to life imprisonment
for abducting three women over a decade.
He raped them repeatedly while holding them in his
Cleveland home.
Family pictures
The Ohio Department for Rehabilitation and Correction
published its findings on Thursday.
The report said that prison guards had failed to check
Castro at least eight times between 15:03 and 20:15
local time on 3 September. He was found hanged at
21:18.
The document said that "post log books were falsified"
and that "there was no satisfactory verification process
in place".
It was also revealed that Castro "was found in his cell
with a Bible open to John Chapters 2 and 3".
"Additionally, he had pictures of his family out and
arranged in a poster-board fashion. His pants and
underwear were pulled down to his ankles."
The convict left no suicide note.
The report said Castro's intentions were unclear,
however the facts had been "relayed to the Ohio State
Highway Patrol for consideration of the possibility of
auto-erotic asphyxiation".

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