0 >> it's good to be back. >> i thought you were gone. >> nope, i'm here. >> we're happy and here for you. >> thank you so much. i miss you and love you guys so much. >> the little girl is your baby? >> yeah. she's my daughter. born on christmas. >> we got to get together soon. >> i know it. >> but i love you, honey. thank god. >> i love you too. >> i thought about you all the time. i never forgot you. >> today, amanda berry's sister thanked the public and media but asked for privacy during these difficult times. that's it for me this hour. see you back here at 5:00 p.m. in "the situation room." "cnn newsroom" continues right now with ashleigh banfield reporting from phoenix. ashleigh. >> wolf, thank you so much. in our live story that just continues to unfold with remarkable details comes to us in cleveland, ohio, where right now we may see somewhat of a repeat of what we saw just an hour and a half ago with the return home of yet another one of these three victims who were held captive for a decade. we had just seen the return home of amanda berry, age 27. and now we are seeing a crowd that is developing outside of the home of gina dejesus, 23 years old. this is the crowd that's gathered outside of her home as police tell us she is likely now to make her homecoming in the next few moments. we don't know when she's coming, but the police say that her return home is imminent. it is 1:00 in the afternoon cleveland time as the police presence grows outside of gina dejesus's home. let me remind you, gina has been missing since 2004. that is one year after amanda berry went missing. at the time gina went missing she was just 14 years old. and the reports were that she was last seen at a pay phone in the middle of an afternoon as she was on her way home from school. but now we're being told that after being treated in the hospital and her condition being reported to us as somewhat frail but good, we are likely to see in the next -- hopefully in the next short while the return home of gina dejesus to her family after just a harrowing ordeal allegedly at the hands of a man and his two brothers not far from the neighborhood where she disappeared. we have a number of developments that are happening in this story at this hour in fact. just a short time ago as i mentioned amanda berry, one of the three women locked up in now what is often being described as a house of horrors locked up for nearly a decade or more, amanda returned home to her family. and there was a crush -- a throng of neighbors and friends and of course the media as well. her nightmare finally ending for her -- at least this phase of it. her sister pleaded to all those who had gathered who had been told by the police she was going to make a statement that she wanted to make a statement, instead her sister saying she chose not to and now is asking for privacy as this family tries to recover. >> i just want to say we are so happy to have amanda and her daughter home. i want to thank the public and the media for their support and encourage over the years. and at this time our family would request privacy. so my sister and niece and i can have time to recover. we appreciate all you have done for us throughout the past ten years. please respect our privacy until we are ready to make our statements. and thank you. >> beth serrano making those comments amid just so many reporters. all of this as the men who allegedly held her sister and two others captive are expected to be charged with the crimes at any time now. our poppy harlow joins us on the phone now live from cleveland. poppy, i know that you are at the home when amanda arrived and it was just such a remarkable scene to witness. obviously so many so fascinated and so interested in her recovery, both neighbors and friends but also the media wanting to know if she's okay. give me a feel for that scene as you watched her arrive. >> hi, ashleigh, i would say that it's jubilation. we pulled up just as crowds started to cheer. there are neighbors there, a lot of media of course, friends, acquaintances of amanda's all outside waiting for her to return. she was in sort of an unmarked type of squad car if you will, accompanied by police officers, also with some of the lead fbi agents, people who had been on this case for years and years trying to find her. people outside just erupted in cheers and applause for her that she had come home. to paint a picture for you of this home, the serrano home, they have had a sign with the picture of amanda tied to the front of their home we're told by neighbors for years and years waiting, not giving up hope for her to come home, a yellow ribbon tied around a tree in front of the house neighbors tell us also has been there for years for amanda. today, she came home. they could not be happier. some of the neighbors i spoke with after we heard that statement from her sister, beth, told me that they could not be more excited, that this is thrilling, that this is just such a happy ending to such a scary and what they thought might be tragic story for amanda and for those other two girls. of course there is still one girl from this area still missing. and we cannot forget that. additionally, one of the neighbors that i spoke with that lives just down the street told me, you know, frankly i didn't think this day was coming. it had been so long, i didn't think she would return home. and to see her return home is just incredible. >> poppy, this story is remarkable. and there are so many developing facets. not only those three victims, their stories, their homecomi s homecomings, also those tlie e three suspects, yet to be charged, what their stories are, what they're going to face, what their culpability may be in all of this. we're going to continue on the coverage of what's going to happen on those three men, but at the same time critically focus on the well-being of these victims of this horrendous ten-year deal. the pictures are coming live to us from our cleveland affiliate wkyc. this is the live picture at gina dejesus's home. she was abducted in 2004 spending nearly an entire decade in captivity. she was treated at the hospital. her condition at the time according to sources said that she was actually doing fine and was in fairly good condition, certainly good enough condition to be released. the girls -- the women at this point, girls as they went into captivity, women as they emerge have all been reported to be in what frail health and certainly undernourished at the very least. we had reports from neighbors that they'd seen the accused -- or the near to be accused in this case, the owner of that home, he had been walking in and out of that home with many bags of mcdonald's. at the time it didn't seem so unusual, in retrospect perhaps making more sense. but now as we look at the ho homecoming for gina dejesus, it's looking remarkably similar to what we just witnessed an hour ago, the homecoming of her co-captive amanda berry, came home to her sister's home with her 6-year-old daughter, a daughter born in captivity as well. now here we are an hour later about to witness the homecoming of gina dejesus as well. friends beginning to emerge. neighbors emerging outside of this home as well. in the case of amanda we saw the crowd growing from just a few to several hundred over the course of about an hour as news broke that their friend and loved one and neighbor was going to be arriving home. and as we await gina dejesus's arrival home, brian todd joins me live now with more on this story. brian. >> ashleigh, as this all unfolds we're awaiting another development here at the courthouse in cleveland, the possible filing of charges against ariel castro and his two brothers. that could come some time today, maybe this afternoon. not quite clear on that. we are getting some new information on a tangled web of allegations of abuse within the castro family especially against ariel castro from past years when he was living with the mother of his natural children. this was a woman named gramilda. this is a document from cuyahoga county. this contains several accounts of abuse. listed as the natural parent of his child, not as his spouse but natural parent of his child among the allegations of abuse against ariel castro that he broke petitioner's nose twice. that he broke her ribs. that he gave her lacerations, knocked out a tooth, gave her a blood clot on the brain and in parenthesis says inoperable tumor, dislocated shoulders once on each side, threatened to kill her and her daughters three to four times just this year. and you flip the page here and another allegation is that -- i'll read it to you, the petitioner has full custody with no visitation for the respondent and the responsibility is ariel castro. nevertheless, the respondent frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from the mother. these are allegations of abuse and abduction against ariel castro. we do have to say that these charges were dismissed later in that year. a court official familiar with the case tells us however that that does not necessarily mean a finding of guilty or not guilty. there were several instances where ariel castro did not show up for court. and finally on one of the bigger days of these proceedings, the lawyer for gramidla was not able to be present and the court determined she would be at a disadvantage so they dismissed the case against him. according to a court official familiar with this case, that was not necessarily a finding of guilt or guilty or not guilty with regard to these allegations, ashleigh. >> and, again, brian, we should remind our viewers these allegations come for protective order, but not -- they didn't result necessarily in charges of abuse, which is so remarkable. and, brian, as we know this wife, gramilda is now deceased, is there anything in any of these dock yuments to indicate where these two children are, these two daughters, essentially could they have been part of this home in which these three young women were allegedly held captive? >> well, it's not clear where one of the daughters is. but we do know where one of the other daughters is because we have another document from the state of indiana about wub of one of their daughters, emily castro, a document which states that she in 2007 tried to kill her baby daughter by slitting her throat four times. this is another document from a court in indiana saying sthe e she tried to kill her own baby daughter and that the mother actually saved that baby daughter's life by wrestling the daughter from her, hailing a car and getting her to the hospital. that's according to this court document that we have in our possession right now. we've also confirmed with the courts and with the prison system in indiana that that daughter, emily castro, is serving a 25-year sentence for attempted murder in that case. >> brian todd reporting for us live outside the criminal justice center in downtown cleveland. i want to bring in my colleague nancy grace now who knows a thing or two about prosecuting having been a prosecutor for so many years. i don't even know where to begin, nancy, with the number of different infractions, violations and laws that have been broken in the myriad different series of facts we're beginning to learn about in this now what we're being told is a house of horrors. i want to just ask you with your initial knowledge of the evidence that so far police have told us about where do you see this investigation going? >> well, i see the obvious choices that you have already discussed such as kidnapping, rape, sodomy, abuse. but i think one victim that is not received any focus at all is the child that was born out of this house of horrors. the 6-year-old little girl that came out of that house. we have also heard from sources that the other women were pregnant several times. but there was never another live birth, which leads me to wonder what happened to those pregnancies. not only that, according to many sources an alleged suicide note written by one of the castros, ariel castro, was found in the home and shockingly in that alleged suicide note, ashleigh, he blames the victims for getting into his car to start with. he claims he has a sex addiction and that he needs help. ropes and chains were found in that home. it is speculated that the women were kept in separate rooms, bound, even in cages. all of this happening in a residential neighborhood. a lot of focus claiming cops didn't do enough, but i would suggest that we take the focus off what cops didn't do and focus on the real perpetrators, that being the castros. if this suicide note is real, that will be very strong evidence against ariel castro. and another thing, about the child, the little child born in that home, think of the child abuse. no vaccinations, no school, nothing, living off bags of mcdonald's that ariel brought in once in a while during the day. he would stay gone for long periods of time, stay for maybe an hour and then leave. that child was raised up in that condition. you know, i also am happy to report that there are sources saying that the brothers, the castro brothers, are subjected to a lot of verbal abuse behind bars. and, boy, do they deserve it. >> well, their saga is just beginning as well in terms of what they're going to be facing. nancy, with all of your years having been a prosecutor i can't even begin to wonder what this community, cleveland, it is not a small city, but how much manpower is this city going to need in terms of dispatching those to investigate each of those brothers, the crime scene itself, these three young women who were once children, their stories, the child born in captivity, it just seems to me this is a crime like no other that would require manpower unknown to probably a lot of communities that have dealt with terrible crimes in the past. how do they even begin this remarkable investigation and the cases that are going to follow? >> well, the most evidence is going to be obtained from the four victims that we know of, the child and adult females. i would suggest after cordoning off the home and processing it that we also focus on another girl, 14-year-old ashley summers who went missing very, very close to the same location as these girls. they all go missing around lorraine street, all three of them. it's amazing to me that no one could connect the dots that three girls may go missing within a space of a couple of years off one street from one street. and one of the three missing girls was actually friends with one of the castro children. yes. that's right. gina, the one -- the 14-year-old that was taken on her way home walking home from school was a close friend of one of the castro brothers' children. they were all connected. this is not stranger on stranger. so my advice is that maybe there's another life to be saved or sadly a homicide to be solved with 14-year-old -- then-14-year-old ashleigh summers. is she another victim in the castro brothers? >> and, nancy, we're going to be following the story of ashly summers a little later on in this program because as you mentioned she went missing not long after these other three victims went missing as well. and not that far away. i also want to report, nancy, that one of the things our cnn crews in the field in cleveland have been discovering is that a number of people have been approaching our live trucks because they see that there's cnn em blazened on the side and asking help for their child missing that perhaps these suspected brothers may be involved in the disappearance of their children. this isn't just one report, this is happening to a number of our crews and our reporters in the field. they're being approached by people in cleveland asking for help, asking to turn the attention to their loved one who hasn't been found yet. it's just such a traumatic ordeal for the families of those involved all around cleveland. >> ashleigh, that is very upsetting. that's very upsetting. i want to point out when ashley was taken, she was believed to be a runaway. which tragically is a label put on so many children that disappear especially the tweens. you know, 12, 13, 14, 15, they're labeled as runaways. and i'm telling you, police are crushed. they don't have enough resources. so when they hear runaway, they put it off in another category. i wonder how many of these children died or were abducted at the hands of the castro brothers right under the nose of their own neighbors. >> yeah. and clearly the investigation will go as far as it can in determining that. we do want to say that police and fbi did respond with cadaver dogs to that location and they have reported today that there are no human remains that have been discovered on that site. nancy, if you could hold for one moment. i want to bring up that live picture again of gina dejesus's home where we're expecting at any moment she's about to make her homecoming as well. not unlike the homecoming just over an hour ago of her co-captive amanda berry. and gina, now at age 23 was missing at age 14 back in 2004. and you can see the people who are amassing, the neighbors and media as well. nancy, if you could just standby, i have so many more questions about the fbi and the child victim specialist that they have dispatch today interview these women who were children when they disappeared. sdp the child that amanda berry had in captivity, nancy, i have so many questions. quick break. y set begins with a surprise twinge of 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