Castro gets life without parole plus 1,000 years

Ariel Castro was sentenced to life without parole on the charge of aggravated murder and received multiple years on various other charges related to kidnap and rape that totalled 1,000 years.

Cuyahoga common pleas court judge Michael Russo emphasised that Castro would never leave jail and that the multiple sentences would be consecutive because of the severity of his crimes. Russo told Castro the extreme sentence is meant “to punish you”.

“You don’t deserve to be out in our community,” Russo told Castro.