Criminal justice failure

Court records show that Castro struggles to control his temper. He’s been accussed of attacking his former wife, who suffered broken ribs, a broken nose, dislocated shoulders, and a blood clot on the brain. However she dropped the charges and the only consequence for Castro seems to have been losing custody of their children.

From “The Cleveland Captives What Really Happened BBC crime documentary”

He committed what amounted to multiple assaults. Such assaults are violent crimes. How could a person who committed multple violent crimes not have been prosecuted and sentenced to a substantial length of incarceration?

Violent crimes are serious but one feels that they are not taken seriously enough.