Some additional insights on how Ariel treated his ex-wife in this article:
http://www.necn.com/05/09/13/Police...twic/landing.html?blockID=840457&feedID=11106
"The filing for a protective order by Grimilda Figueroa also said that Castro frequently abducted her daughters and kept them from her. Figueroa died in April 2012 after a battle with cancer.
Figueroa's father, Ismail Figueroa, said Wednesday that Castro would regularly lock his daughter inside a second-floor apartment in the house where they lived when they were first together.
Later, when they moved a few blocks to the house Castro purchased - the house from which, years later, the women would escape - he kept a close eye on her and refused to let people come inside to visit her or even let her pick up their children from school, said Angel Villanueva, who is married to Grimilda Figueroa's sister.
Grimilda was "not allowed to go nowhere," said Villanueva. No matter where she wanted to go, "it had to be with him.""