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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight escaped captivity after being seemingly kept for years in a Cleveland house Berry went missing in 2003 a day before her birthday when she was 16. She is now 27. DeJesus was 14 when she was taken in 2004. Knight was taken in 2002 when she was 21. A six-year-old girl found with the three women is believed to be Amanda Berry’s daughter. The women were found after neighbours heard yelling from a Cleveland house. It was Berry pounding from inside the door. After neighbours busted in the door to help Berry escape with the 6-year-old, she frantically called 911 After a night in the hospital, the women were released with their families

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Police are today facing questions over their handling of the case of three women discovered in a Cleveland house after neighbors revealed a string of horror stories about the property.

One neighbor says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago. Another neighbor says he heard pounding on the doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows.

Police showed up at the house both times, the neighbors say, but never went inside.

Now, after three women who vanished separately about a decade ago were rescued from the peeling, rundown house Monday in a discovery that exhilarated and astonished the city, Cleveland police are conducting an internal review to see if they overlooked anything.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson admitted to the media the case was disturbing.

“We are happy that they are returned to us. But we have several unanswered questions. Why were they taken, how were they taken and how did they remain undetected in the city of Cleveland for this time?” he said.