Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and MIchelle Knight Rescue 911 Call Still Under Investigation, Details
The investigation continues into the Cleveland dispatcher who answered the 911 call from Amanda Berry that resulted in the rescue of her, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight on May 6 after almost a decade of captivity.
Cleveland City Hall said the city reviewed audio of the 911 call and sent out for independent review by another law enforcement agency, ABC News Channel 5 reported. Investigators are trying to determine if and what the dispatcher said at the end of the 911 call. Rumors circulated starting in May about that the dispatcher used inappropriate language at the end of the call with Berry.
"Help me I'm Amanda Berry... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for ten years and I'm here. I'm free now," Berry said in the call.
The operator told Berry, "we're gonna to send [police] as soon as we get a car open," but Berry demanded, "No, I need then now before he gets back." The phone call allegedly ended with the operator telling Berry, "I told you they're on their way; talk to them when they get there," and Berry answering "OK."
Listen to Berry's 911 call here.
Martin L. Flask, the director of the Cleveland Department of Public Safety, told Fox8.com that for starters, the dispatcher should have stayed on the line with Berry until police arrived.
Berry, 27, DeJesus, 23, and Knight, 32, were rescued on May 6 after Berry managed to escape the home of their kidnaper, Ariel Castro, and call police, with the help of neighbors. Castro, 52, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in court after a judge handed a 329-count indictment, including 139 counts of rape and 177 counts of kidnapping. The charges also include seven counts of gross sexual imposition, three counts of felonious assault and one count of possession of criminal tools.
