{"id":1193,"date":"2013-08-02T21:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T04:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:53:24","slug":"castros-speech-full-of-empty-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/castros-speech-full-of-empty-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Castro&#8217;s Speech Full of &#8220;Empty Words&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/175273297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/175273297-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"175273297\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/175273297-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/175273297-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/175273297.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> was physically shaken by Ariel Castro\u2019s testimony because it returned me to a time seventeen years ago when I sat in a courtroom and listened to another remorseless pervert, my daughter Polly\u2019s killer, excuse and justify his own evil deeds. I am stunned that these guys have a right to speak in open court. Their self-serving lies are nothing more than delusional attempts to cast themselves as victims as they pitifully attempt to redefine unspeakable crimes against innocent and vulnerable victims, but the empty words of a coward cannot erase a lifetime of violence and perversion.<\/p>\n<p>When Castro turned and stared at Michelle Knight, he should have been silenced and removed from the courtroom. Instead, his continued talking as he watched her.\u00a0 There were enough lawyers in the courtroom that somebody should have objected. Nobody did. His attempt to intimidate Michelle fell flat when he, and not she, looked &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlntv.com\/article\/2013\/08\/02\/ariel-castro-michelle-knight-victim-perpetrator-courtroom\">http:\/\/www.hlntv.com\/article\/2013\/08\/02\/ariel-castro-michelle-knight-victim-perpetrator-courtroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>was physically shaken by Ariel Castro\u2019s testimony because it returned me to a time seventeen years ago when I sat in a courtroom and listened to another remorseless pervert, my daughter Polly\u2019s killer, excuse and justify his own evil deeds. I am stunned that these guys have a right to speak in open court. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,57,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ariel-castro","category-missing-adult","category-missing-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}