Pictured: The three brothers 'who kidnapped three girls and kept them captive for 10 years' as it emerges the victims 'gave birth to at least FIVE babies in the home'



Missing women Amanda Berry , 26, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michele Knight, 32, were found on Monday after Amanda escaped and called 911

Girl, 6, also found alive after Amanda gave birth to her inside the home

Police sources claim one of the women had as many as three miscarriages because she was so malnourished



Police arrest 52-year-old 'captor' who owned house and his two brothers



The women - then girls - were kidnapped separately on the same street more than nine years ago and taken just three miles away



Authorities visited the home in 2004 but left after no one answered the door



Authorities have released pictures of the three brothers arrested after three missing women were found at a Cleveland home where they had allegedly been held captive for a decade.



The mugshots of Ariel Castro, 52, who owned the property, and his brothers Onil, 50, and Pedro, 54, emerged as police sources claimed the women reportedly had multiple pregnancies at the home.



At least five babies were born at the house, while one of the victims suffered as many as three miscarriages because she was so malnourished, police sources told NewsChannel5 .

Other sources told WKYC that the captors would beat the women when they were pregnant, meaning that the babies would not survive.



It is unknown what happened to any children who were born at the home, and it is not clear whether a six-year-old girl who was found alive there on Monday is among the number cited by sources.

The girl was found after her mother, kidnap victim Amanda Berry, 26, climbed through a screen door on Monday afternoon while her alleged captor was out and fled to a neighbor's home to call 911.

Scroll down for videos and audio of the 911 call

Homeowner: Ariel Castro, 52

Brother: Pedro Castro, 54



Arrest: Onil Castro, 50













Reunited: Amanda Berry (centre) at the Cleveland Hospital alongside her emotional sister (left) and the daughter that she gave birth to during the 10 years she was held against her will

When police arrived minutes later, they found Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michele Knight, 32, who had also been missing for a decade, along with the young girl.



At the press conference, authorities confirmed that the little girl was born to Berry while she was in captivity, but it is not known which of the three suspects - if any - is the father.

Today police praised Berry, who went missing a day before her 17th birthday in 2003, for escaping and alerting authorities to the two other women at the home.

'The real hero here is Amanda,' Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba said at a press conference on Tuesday morning. 'She came out of that house and that started it all.'

The praise for Amanda came as police revealed that Child Protective Services had been sent to the home in 2004, but left without speaking to the homeowner, Ariel Castro, after there was no answer.



Castro, 52, has been arrested along with his two brothers, Pedro, 54, and Oneil, 50. At the press conference, authorities said they believe they have the three men responsible, who will face charges.



Discovery: Amanda Berry, 26, (left) and Gina DeJesus (right), 23, were found alive in a house in Cleveland after being missing for 10 years. Berry disappeared aged 16, while DeJesus went missing at 14



Scene: The women were helped out of this home on Seymour Avenue that belongs to Ariel Castro

The women and young girl were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center, as they are reportedly suffering from severe dehydration and slightly malnourished. Dr Gerald Maloney, an emergency department physician, said they were in 'fair condition' .

'The nightmare is over,' said Cleveland FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen Anthony at the press conference. 'These three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of survival and perseverance. The healing can now begin.'



The disappearances of Amanda and Gina has captured the attention of the entire city for the past decade, as their relatives have continually held vigils and kept the story alive in the press.

The three women were kidnapped on the same street and found at the home just three miles away as their alleged kidnappers hid in plain sight. Neighbors said they often saw Castro walking with the six-year-old girl.

Cleveland police believe the women were tied up in the home after they were snatched and local reports noted there were chains hanging from the ceiling.

House of horror: Aerial views of a house on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio where the three women were held captive for 10 years Shocked: Neighbors said they were shocked to hear the women were living in the basement of the home Combing: Cleveland police and FBI agents search a yard. There were apparently signs that dirt had recently been moved in the backyard of the house Escape: A neighbor managed to kick down a door at the home, pictured, freeing the women Escape route: The front door of a house where the women escaped after a neighbor helped them

'HELP ME! I'M AMANDA BERRY!': VICTIM'S FRANTIC 911 CALL

Amanda Berry: Help me, I'm Amanda Berry.

Operator: Do you need police, fire or ambulance?

Berry: I need police. Operator: OK, and what's going on there?

Berry: I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here. I'm free now.

Operator: OK, and what's your address?

(The operator tries to figure out where she is.)

Berry: I'm across the street. I'm using their phone

Operator: OK, stay there with those neighbors and talk to the police when they get there.

(The operator repeats her instructions several times.)

Berry: OK, are they on their way right now? I need them now.

Operator: We're gonna send them as soon as we get a car open.

Berry: No, I need them now before he gets back.

Operator: All right. We're sending them, OK?

Berry: OK. I mean, like, right now.

Operator: Who is the guy who went out?

Berry: His name is Ariel Castro.

Operator: All right. How old is he?

Berry: He's like 52.

Operator: All right, and a...

Berry: And I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years.

Operator: OK, I got that, dear... what is his name again?

Berry: Uh, Ariel Castro.

Operator: And is he white, black or Hispanic?

Berry: Uh, he's Hispanic.

Operator: What's he wearing?

Berry: I don't know cause he's not here right now. That's how we got away.

Operator: When he left, what was he wearing?

Berry: (Indistinguishable)

Operator: The police are on the way. Talk to them when they get there.

Berry: OK.

They added that Child Protective Services had been sent to the home in 2004 but after knocking on the front door and getting no response, did not make contact with Castro - and did not return.

The call came after Castro, who worked as a bus driver for the city of Cleveland until last year, inadvertently left a young boy on the vehicle when he returned to the bus depot.

After an investigation, no criminal intent was found.



After 10 years being held against their will, the women were finally freed just before 6pm on Monday after neighbor Charles Ramsey, heard screaming from the house as he sat down to eat a meal.

Mr Ramsey, told WEWS-TV he saw Amanda, who he didn't recognize, at a door that would open only enough to fit a hand through screaming, ' Help me get out! I've been in here a long time.'

'We had to kick open the bottom,' he said. 'Lucky on that door it was aluminum. It was cheap. She climbed out with her daughter.'

When Amanda fled the home and ran across the street to call police, she was holding the hand of a young girl. The two other women followed her out of the home when law enforcement arrived.



'Help me I'm Amanda Berry... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for ten years and I'm here. I'm free now,' Berry is heard saying in the call to police that has been publicly released.



'I need them now before he gets back!' she said in the frantic phone call to 911, going on to identify her captor as Ariel Castro.

The Plain Dealer reported that Castro was arrested at a nearby McDonald's.

Castro has lived in the house since 1992 and he was arrested for domestic violence in 1993.



Sources close to local station WOIO are telling the station that the women were reportedly tied up during their captivity and police found chains hanging from one of the ceilings



They also reported that there were signs that dirt had recently been moved in the backyard of the house, though police continue to investigate whether or not the dirt will lead to any new evidence in the case.



Michelle went missing in 2000 when she was 20.



Amanda disappeared on April 21, 2003, a day before her 17th birthday.



A year after Gina, then 14 went missing on April 2, 2004, on her way home from school.

Amanda disappeared shortly after she called her sister to say that she was getting a ride home from her job at Burger King.



The search: FBI investigators remove a bag of evidence from the home that belongs to Ariel Castro, the man that Amanda Berry named during her frantic 911 call as being her captor

Horrific: Local reporters say that investigators found chains hanging from the ceiling in the house and the women were believed to have been tied up during their decade-long abduction

Investigation: Police and FBI congregate outside a house on Cleveland's west side

Amanda's mother, Louwana Miller, who had been hospitalized for months with pancreatitis and other ailments, died in March 2006.



She had spent the previous three years looking for her daughter, whose disappearance took a toll as her health steadily deteriorated, family and friends said.



In November 2004, she even turned to a psychic, Sylvia Browne, on Montel Williams' television show.

'She's not alive, honey,' Browne told her. 'Your daughter's not the kind who wouldn't call.'



But Councilwoman Dona Brady said she had spent many hours with Miller, who never gave up hope that her daughter was alive.

'She literally died of a broken heart,' Brady said.



Rescue: Neighbour Charles Ramsey said he had seen a woman screaming for help at the front door of the house and broke the door down

Details: Cleveland police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba, right, addresses the media as Safety Service Director Martin Flask, left, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, second left, and Cleveland Police Sgt. Sammy Morris listen

At the hospital Amanda with her daughter was photographed with her older sister Beth Serrano, who has maintained the search for her sister since their mother died in 2006.



Before the kidnapping: Gina was 14 when she vanished on the way home from school in 2004

Beth's husband Ted Serrano told local station WOIO that his wife is overjoyed about her sister's return.



'She said (Amanda)'s okay, she's got a daughter. She said she's okay, she looks good,' Mr Serrano told the station.

Beth has worked closely with the DeJesus family, whose daughter Georgina 'Gina' DeJesus was found in the same home as Amanda.

On Monday evening, DeJesus' cousin Sylvia Colon spoke to CNN, saying that the missing girl's mother Nancy Ruiz confirmed to relatives that Gina is alive and well in hospital.

'What a phenomenal mother's Day gift this is,' Ms Colon told the station.



Earlier in the case, DeJesus' mother Nancy Ruiz raised the alarm that her daughter was the victim of human trafficking.

'I always said it from the beginning; she was sold to the highest bidder,' Ms Ruiz said in April 2012.

The disappearance of Knight did not attract the local media attention of the Berry and DeJesus cases.



Her grandmother, Deborah Knight, told the Plain Dealer that some family members had concluded, based in part on suggestions by police and social workers at the time, that she had run away.



Search: Authorities have been searching for the missing girls for years; pictured are the computer-generated images of what Gina, left, and Amanda, right, were believed to have looked like now