“I just think that would be inappropriate,” Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Russo said last month.
The idea that Castro — who will be sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to 937 counts — would have any parental rights is hard to believe. But in 31 states, rapists do enjoy the rights of a father.
Ohio currently has no laws that would take away Castro’s parental rights for fathering the child with Amanda Berry, who he abducted in 2003 when she was a teenager.
Surviving rape
“I was astonished,” said Shauna Prewitt, who was raped when she was a senior in college.
Her daughter was six months old when she found out that the man who raped her wanted partial custody.
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