Ariel Castro was yesterday, Sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 1,000 years as punishment for the abduction and nearly decade-long torture of three Ohio women. Castro declared to the Cleveland court room he was 'not a monster' - rather a sick individual addicted to pornography.
'All the sex was consensual,' Castro told the judge before sentencing. 'The girls were not virgins. They had multiple sex partners before me.'

Castro, who pleaded guilty to 937 counts including kidnapping, rape and murder, appeared in Cuyahoga County for the approximately five hour hearing.
Standing in an orange jumpsuit, Castro shocked the packed courtroom by stating that there was "a lot of harmony" in thehouse where he trapped and abused Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. The 53-year-old blamed his behavior on the violence he suffered as a child and his addiction to porn.
 Gina deJesus, left and Amanda Berry, right

At his hearing Castro said, 'I'm not a violent person. I simply kept them there so they couldn't leave.' referring to Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, the three women he held captive in his so called House of Horrors
.Michelle Knight, the only one of Castro's victims who testified on her own behalf, told the court that she is "finally being heard."
Michele Knight, one of the three kidnapped women, reads her statements during the sentencing of her accused kidnapper Ariel Castro at a court hearing in Cleveland, Ohio August 1, 2013

"Ariel Castro, I remember all the times that you came home talking about what everyone else did wrong, acting like you didn't do the same thing," she said.
"I spent 11 years in hell, now your hell is just beginning," Knight added. "What does God think of you going to church every Sunday and coming home to torture us?"
A plea deal reached last week spared Castro of facing the death penalty for abusing and starving a pregnant victim until she miscarried.
In a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said that while Castro "admits his disgusting and inhuman conduct," he still "remains remorseless for his actions."
Culled from HUFF POST