By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - On the day of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro's death in his prison cell, guards falsified logs and did not properly complete their checks on him, a state investigative report on his death said on Thursday.
The report by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction also said that Castro, 53, might not have intended to die when he hanged himself on September 3, but may have been engaging in a sexual act.
Castro had been serving a sentence of life plus 1,000 years for the abduction, torture and detention of three young Cleveland women. He had been taken off suicide watch in June, but was supposed to have been checked on every 30 minutes by guards.
The report said his trousers and underwear were around his ankles, although the relevance of the finding is "unclear." Those facts were relayed to the Ohio State Highway Patrol for "consideration of the possibility of auto-erotic asphyxiation," the report said.
Castro had pleaded guilty in August to more than 900 counts including kidnapping, rape, and murder, after three women and a 6-year-old girl he fathered, escaped from his home on May 6. The kidnap victims - Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight - had been missing up to 11 years.
(Reporting by Kim Palmer, Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune and Gunna Dickson)
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