After nearly a decade of unanswered questions, three young women were reunited with their families after they were rescued from a house in Cleveland Monday night where they were apparently held in captivity for years.  

The three women went missing separately starting in 2002, when Michelle knight was kidnapped when she was 20 years old. Amanda Berry disappeared at age 16 when she was on her way home from her Job at Burger King on April 21, 2003. About a year later, Gina DeJesus was kidnapped at age 14 on her way home from school. All kidnappings took place just miles away from the rundown, boarded-up house where the three women were found.

The house, located on Seymour Avenue, is the home of Ariel Castro, a 53-year-old former school bus driver. Police arrested Castro and his two brothers, Pedro Castro, 54, and Oneil Castro, 50. The brothers are in custody and must be charged within 36 hours, law enforcement authorities said.

A frantic 911 call made by Amanda Berry first alerted Police, leading them to the downtown Cleveland home where they then found the two other missing women.

"Help me! I'm Amanda Berry. ... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm here. I'm free now," Berry can be heard telling a 911 operator in a recording of the call released by police.

 A six-year-old girl was also rescued and  Cleveland police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said Tuesday that the girl is believed to be Berry's daughter. He declined to say who the father was or where the child was born.

A neighbor, Charles Ramsey, helped discover the women after he heard Berry trying to get out of the house.

"She said, 'Help me get out.' So I'm looking at her and I'm like, 'What's wrong with you?' She said 'We been in here for a long time.' So I pried the door and one of my friends helped me and she kicked the bottom of the door while she came up," Ramsey told WOIO-TV. "I didn't know who she was."

The three women are receiving medical care at Metro Health Medical Center and are said to be in good health and high spirits, CBS News reported.

“Prayers have finally been answered. The nightmare is over,” Steve Anthony, the FBI special agent in charge in Cleveland, said in a press conference. “These three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definite of survival and perseverance.”

Cleveland officials have sectioned off the area and FBI investigators are combing the house for evidence and also investigation how the young women went unnoticed for so long in a neighborhood where houses are so close together, Reuters reported.

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