He was later to move to Cleveland, Ohio as a child because members of his extended family already lived there. As The A&E Television Networks (2014) continues to assert, Castro purchased a house at 2207 Seymour Avenue in 1992, where he lived with his wife and four children. According to Sandy (2013), Castro’s occupation was a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. It was while employed as a bus driver that Castro had his first brush with the law. Sandy (2013) affords that Castro was accused of abandoning a child on a bus in 2004, his intentions unclear. As a result, he was extensively interviewed by both the department of family services and law enforcement agencies. In 2012, he was accused once again of leaving a child on his bus, but could not be found at his home for questioning by the department of children and family services. The resulting consequence was his immediate dismissal from his …show more content…
This is primarily because from the above depiction, he was able to not only maintain a normal association with the outside world, but he was also able to conceal his personal need to enslave defenseless women. There is no doubt as to the fact that Castro was methodical, consistent, and logical in how he undertook the decision to abduct the three women and consequently hold them captive for over a decade. The use of manipulation was pervasive, and is probably embodied by the fact all there women were actually known to him, and therefore, seemingly trusted him. However, the million dollar question regarding the decision by Castro is what inspired him? What essentially led him to kidnap the three women? To answer this question, it is imperative to focus on the life experiences of Castro. Previously, this paper has noted that Castro was given to violent tendencies even before the kidnappings. He often abused his wife and children, and locked his entire family away from the public eye. This perhaps establishes the root cause for his personality. However, it does not establish exclusively his reasons for the abductions; this is entirely afforded by the fact that due to his violent divorce from his wife and consequent loss of custody of his children, Castro essentially felt the need to capture a representation of his lost family. Therefore, as Sandy (2013) asserts, the history of Castro’s domestic