Three American women kidnapped for ten years found alive in Cleveland

Ariel Castro, Pedro J Castro and Onil Castro

Sadistic kidnappers kidnapped and raped three Cleveland women for a decade, resulting in several pregnancies and the birth of one child which is now 6-year-old.

Authorities said today the  6-year-old girl is believed to be Amanda Berry’s daughter.

Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held against their will since they were teens (between the age 14 –  19) before Berry broke free last night and called 911.

Berry and her family celebrating her freedom

The women were forced to have sex with their captors and they became pregnant up to five times, police sources told WKYC-TV.

The babies, other than the 6-year-old found last night, did not survive, those sources said. It wasn’t immediately clear how they died.

Cops were searching the women’s house of horrors today, specifically looking at “disturbed” dirt in the backyard where the suspects might have been digging.

“We believe the 6-year-old found in the home is Amanda’s daughter,” said Cleveland police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba.

Three brothers, between the ages 50 and 54, were arrested last night. Police have up to 36 hours to file a criminal complaint against them. (And seriously, I hope they rot in hell!!!).

Knight, disappeared in 2002, Berry in 2003 and DeJesus about a year after that.

Despite the victims’ long captivity, authorities insisted they were constantly working leads all these years.

The house

“We reviewed [tips] them regularly with the family and with our partners in the Cleveland Police Department,” said Steven Anthony, the FBI special agent in charge in Cleveland.

“Not a year went, not actually probably a three -month period, went by where we didn’t have some lead generated by the public or the family.”

Cleveland cops said they scoured their records and did not find any 911 calls or any other calls for service, before last night, to the home where the women had been kept.

The missing women were discovered when a neighbor, who happened to be home from work, heard shouting coming from the house and went to investigate.

“I heard screaming . . . I come outside and I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of her house,” neighbor Charles Ramsey told Cleveland’s WEWS-TV.

FREEDOM: Amanda Berry (center) celebrates her liberation with family and friends yesterday. The child is believed to be Berry’s daughter, Cleveland officials said today.

“I go on the porch and she said, ‘Help me get out. I’ve been here a long time.’ ”

Another neighbor then helped break down the door and free the desperate young woman, who they later discovered was Berry.

Neighbor, Charles Ramsey

As soon as she escaped, Berry called 911 from the Ramseys’ home and told police she was the girl they’d been searching for all these years.

“Help me, I’m Amanda Berry,” she said in the frantic 911 call. “I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for ten years and I’m here — I’m free now.”

When police responded to the house they found the other women inside.

Berry sparked a massive community response in Cleveland when she disappeared in 2003 after she called her sister to say she was going to get a ride home from her job at Burger King.

It was the day before her 17th birthday.

Berry’s mother, Louwana Miller, died in 2006 after the years looking for her lost daughter took a toll on her health, according to her family and friends.

Amanda Berry left and Georgina Lynn Dejesus

FBI handout photos show Amanda Marie Berry, missing since she was 16, and Georgina Lynn Dejesus, missing since she was 14.

DeJesus was 14 years old when she went missing about a year later while walking home from her Cleveland middle school.

Her mother, Nancy Ruiz, said she believed DeJesus was sold into human trafficking.

A sign outside the home of DeJesus’ parents read “Welcome Home Gina.”

Her aunt Sandra Ruiz told reporters that she was able to see all three. She asked that the family be given space.

“Those girls, those women are so strong,” she said. “What we’ve done in 10 years is nothing compared to what those women have done in 10 years to survive.”

Investigators celebrated the news almost as much as the families.

Berry and her family celebrating her freedom