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After bodies found, calls for addiction help rise

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CLEVELAND -Drug-addicted women in Cleveland are seeking treatment in greater numbers after the discovery of 11 decomposing bodies in a sex offender's home more than a month ago.
The United Way says calls from women trying to get into drug treatment programs were up 36 percent last month compared to the same time last year.
Police believe 50-year-old Anthony Sowell lured women addicted to drugs or alcohol into his Cleveland home and attacked them.
Sowell has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to aggravated murder charges. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
Forty-year-old Denise Gaines says she was motivated to sober up after seeing framed photographs of the victims. She says her picture could have been in one of those frames.
Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
2009-12-12 17:46:50

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DALEANDMISSY
11:17PM Dec 17 2009 
I agree with you.
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DALEANDMISSY
11:12PM Dec 17 2009 
oh my god why would u say that! i'm surprised no one reported u
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YourAnjl
5:40PM Dec 12 2009 
Let us hope that the community steps forward and supports each and every woman now willing to try to undergo drug rehab and get off the streets. Drug addicted women and men who engage in prostitution to support their addiction become throwaway people with no real future: death by addiction, death by homicide, death by HIV.
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Grembros
12:56PM Dec 3 2009 
All africans are insane animals.
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Mcmargie62
11:48AM Dec 3 2009 
insanity are you kidding me ---maybe for the first one i can maybe say that but what about the additional 10 women was he insane then also or when he buried the bodies ---he would have been better off saying he had a split personality and his alter ego was doing it.
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Atrainchris
9:27AM Dec 2 2009 
This is a sick individual who probably has killed in recent years in other states.DNA should link him eventually if he did.
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RavensRowan
3:26PM Dec 1 2009 
THIS is what happens when you send a rapist to prison and then let him out in a yr or two. he goes in and understands that if the woman had been dead he wouldnt be in prison at all.and when he gets out he makes sure no one can testify against him. we allow rapists , pedophiles, and murderers out in less time than someone caught for smoking pot for the 3rd time. tell me what sense does this make? who would you want to have as a neighbor, this man or someone like him or a pot head? give me the pot head anytime.our laws are all messed up and we allow this.
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Drug-addicted women in Cleveland are seeking treatment in greater numbers after the discovery of 11 decomposing bodies in a sex offender\'s home more than a month ago.