A police official in the Midwestern U.S. city of Cleveland says a six-year-old girl found in a house where three missing women were kept for years is the daughter of one of them.
A frantic emergency services call led police to a house near downtown Cleveland, where the three women were found Monday.
Dozens of police officers and sheriff's deputies searched a home south of downtown Cleveland. (Mark Duncan/Associated Press) Police say Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held inside the house since they were in their teens or early 20s. Knight disappeared in 2002, Berry in 2003 and DeJesus about a year after that.
The women appeared to be in good health and were taken to a hospital to be evaluated and reunited with relatives. They were released from Metro Health Medical Center on Tuesday morning.
Cleveland police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said the young girl found in the home is believed to be Berry's daughter.
Three brothers have been arrested and are expected to be charged, officials said during a media briefing Tuesday morning. The suspects were identified as Ariel Castro, 52; Pedro Castro, 54; and Onil Castro, 50.
Police offered few details about what happened to the women since they disappeared and said more information would be released later.
Investigators will have to speak with the women to learn more about their ordeal, authorities say.
"These three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of survival or preservation," said Stephen Anthony, special agent in charge of the FBI's Cleveland office. "The healing can now begin. "
Neighbour thought home vacant
Neighbour Juan Perez told NBC's Today show that he rarely saw Castro or anyone else at the house.
"I thought the home was vacant. I thought he probably had another property and he would just come and check and see if everything is OK." Perez said. "I didn't even know anybody lived there."
The women's escape and rescue began with a frenzied cry for help.
A neighbour, Charles Ramsey, told WEWS-TV he heard screaming Monday and saw Berry, whom he didn't recognize, at a door that would open only enough to fit a hand through. He said she was trying desperately to get outside and pleaded for help to reach police.
"I heard screaming," he said. "I'm eating my McDonald's. I come outside. I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house."
Neighbour Anna Tejeda was sitting on her porch with friends when they heard someone across the street kicking a door and yelling.
Tejeda, 50, said one of her friends went over and told Berry how to kick the screen out of the bottom of the door, which allowed her to get out.
Speaking Spanish, which was translated by one of her friends, Tejeda said Berry was nervous and crying. She was dressed in pajamas and old sandals.
At first Tejeda said she didn't want to believe who the young woman was. "You're not Amanda Berry," she insisted. "Amanda Berry is dead."
But when Berry told her she'd been kidnapped and held captive, Tejeda said she gave her the telephone to call police, who arrived within minutes and then took the other women from the house.
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