The AP is reporting that the young girl found in the home where three missing women were held is believed to be the daughter of one of them.
Berry is now 27 and has been missing for about a decade. The New York Daily Newshas a picture of Berry with a young child in a hospital room, taken after she escaped from captivity. The newspapers says the child is 6 years old and Berry's daughter.
The child's identity and age has not yet been officially released.
Authorities believe that 52-year-old Ariel Castro held the women captive in his Cleveland home.
Investigators are now saying that the women were forced to have sex with their captors, and that the rapes produced as many as five pregnancies. Sources say the captors beat the women when they were pregnant and the babies didn't survive.
A man who lives in the neighborhood and helped Amanda Berry escape Castro's house identified the young girl found in the house as Berry's daughter. Here's his account of what happened:
"I look and I see this girl and she's just going nuts on the door so, I'm like, 'What's your problem? If you're stuck, just open the door.' She said 'I can't, you got it locked,'" Charles Ramsey said.
"Luckily … it was aluminum, it was cheap," he said, "And she climbed out with her daughter. ... She went to my house, we called 911."
Another neighbor said he saw Castro at the park last weekend with a little girl. When the neighbor asked who the girl was, Castro said she was "his girlfriend's daughter."
Berry was carrying a child in her arms when she emerged from the house.
Here's the full picture:
PHOTO: Escaped kidnap victim Amanda Berry (center) in the hospital with her sister (left) and young girl. twitter.com/EasonJordan/st…
— Eason Jordan (@EasonJordan) May 7, 2013
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