CLOSE Gina DeJesus gave the crowds surrounding her house a thumbs up when she returned home after more than a decade in captivity. VPC 
 
 Cleveland homeowner Ariel Castro charged with kidnapping and rape, but two brothers not charged. 
 
 A sign hangs on the porch of the home of Amanda Berry's sister on Wednesday. (Photo: Tony Dejak, AP) Story Highlights Cleveland homeowner Ariel Castro charged with kidnapping and rape 
 
 Two brothers were not charged 
 
 Survivors Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus reunited with their families 
 
 Third victim, Michelle Knight, remains hospitalized 
 
 Ariel Castro, the man who owned the Cleveland home where three women escaped this week after nearly a decade of captivity, was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. 
 
 The kidnapping charges include the 6-year-old daughter of Amanda Berry, who was conceived and born in the house on the city's west side. DNA tests are being conducted to determine the child's father. 
 
 Castro will be arraigned Thursday morning. 
 
 His two brothers, Pedro and Onil, will not be charged. Cleveland prosecutor Victor Perez said there was no evidence they were involved in the crime or had any knowledge of it. 
 
 No other victims are expected from the case. 
 
 Other revelations: 
 
 • Berry and Gina DeJesus were welcomed back to their family homes. The third victim, Michelle Knight, remained hospitalized Wednesday. 
 
 • Berry was reunited with relatives at her sister's home in Cleveland. Her sister, Beth Serrano, made a brief statement thanking the public for their support and requesting privacy so that Berry can "heal" and "recover." 
 
 • DeJesus hid her face with a hoodie and gave a thumbs-up sign as she arrived home. 
 
 • DeJesus reportedly told investigators she was abducted when she accepted a ride home from school, according to NBC News. 
 
 • DeJesus is in "good sprits," according to a CNN interview with a family member. 
 
 • DeJesus was a friend of Ariel Castro's daughter as a young teen, WKYC-TV reports. 
 
 • Ariel Castro helped search for DeJesus when she went missing, and Castro was friends with the girl's father, Khalid Samad, a friend of the DeJesus family, told the Associated Press. Samad also said Castro helped pass out missing-persons fliers. 
 
 • AP reported that Castro also comforted DeJesus' mother at a candlelight vigil for her missing daughter. 
 
 • Victims' family members told CNN that survivor Michelle Knight, the longest held captive, was "malnourished and weak." 
 
 • Metro Health Hospital spokeswoman Tina Shaerban-Arundel confirmed Knight was still hospitalized Wedneday, in good condition. 
 
 • Cleveland Safety Director Martin Flask said no human remains had been found at the site where Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight escaped. Authorities had been drawn to disturbed soil in the yard — and previously told WKYC-TV that the three women were forced to have sex with their captors, that the pregnant women were beaten and that the babies didn't survive. 
 
 • One victim reportedly suffered up to three miscarriages because she was so malnourished, according to Cleveland's WEWS-TV. 
 
 • One of the brothers is believed to have fathered the 6-year-old girl found at the home with Berry, now 27, according to Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba. DNA tests are being conducted to verify paternity. 
 
 
 
 • Berry give birth in an inflatable swimming pool inside the house, police told The Plain Dealer. The girl's name is Jocelyn. 
 
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 • WKYC-TV reports Berry's family is "excited" to meet their grandchild and is eager to "embrace Berry's daughter as their own." 
 
 • Police sources said the 6-year-old-girl was occasionally taken out of the house and would visit suspect Ariel Castro's mother, Lillian Rodriguez, whom she called "grandmother." 
 
 • The women were restrained by ropes and chains and occasionally had been allowed into the backyard, Police Chief Michael McGrath said. 
 
 • WKYC-TV spoke with Ariel Castro's son, who said his father was "secretive" and that there were padlocks on doors to the attic, basement and garage in his father's home. Castro's son said he was not close to his father. 
 
 • Investigators are talking with relatives of at least one other missing woman from the neighborhood, AP reported. Ashley Summers, a 14-year-old girl, disappeared in 2007 near the house where Castro lives. 
 
 • McGrath told NBC's Today show that the physical condition of the three women was "very good considering the circumstances" and the women were allowed in the backyard of the suspect's home "once in a while." 
 
 • McGrath said police did everything they could to find the women since they went missing, denying claims by neighbors that officers had been called to the house for suspicious circumstances from time to time in the past 10 years. 
 
 • Cleveland neighbor Israel Lugo said that other neighbors had seen women crawling on all fours behind Castro's house, and that the men were controlling the women, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail Online. 
 
 • Suspect Ariel Castro speaks both English and Spanish. Brothers Pedro and Onil Castro speak only Spanish, according to WKYC-TV. 
 
 • FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson told ABC-TV that the three woman "had a bond, that they had been through this together." 
 
 Contributing: Michael Winter 
 
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 "Something must have clicked" to spur Amanda Berry to escape, police say 
 
 2 women, who were brainwashed and fearful, didn't run with Berry, a source says 
 
 "Ariel kept everybody at a distance," police say, adding others weren't involved 
 
 The baby Amanda Berry gave birth to while she was held captive in a Cleveland home was delivered by another one of the young women in the house, according to a police source familiar with the investigation. 
 
 The information was corroborated in a police report seen by CNN. When Berry went into labor, Ariel Castro, now charged with kidnapping and rape, grabbed captive Michelle Knight and told her to deliver the baby. 
 
 The baby was born into a plastic tub or pool to contain the afterbirth and amniotic fluid. 
 
 When the baby was born, it stopped breathing and everyone started screaming, the source said, citing the girl's account. Castro allegedly said, "if that baby dies, I'm going to kill you." 
 
 "What's most incredible here is that this girl who knows nothing about childbirth was able to deliver a baby that is now a healthy 6-year-old," the source said. 
 
 The three women spent their days and nights captive at 2207 Seymour Avenue, a 1,400-square-foot home in one of Cleveland's oldest neighborhoods. They went outside only twice in that span -- just "briefly" at that -- Cleveland public safety director Martin Flask said. 
 
 More often, the three would be in different rooms, though they interacted occasionally and came to "rely on each other for survival," said a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation. 
 
 One thing they could count on was that their alleged captor would never let them out. 
 
 Castro would often test Berry, Knight and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, the young women he'd allegedly abducted, by pretending to leave, said the law enforcement source. He'd return suddenly: If there were indications any of the women had moved, they'd be disciplined. 
 
 Years went by. In that time, the women saw their parents on television at vigils held for them, according to the law enforcement source. They got emotional, knowing their loved ones were looking for them. 
 
 And in time, Knight and DeJesus "succumbed" to "their reality," the law enforcement source said. 
 
 But "something must have clicked" for Berry on Monday evening, said Cleveland's deputy police chief Ed Tomba. She staged a daring escape, and with the help of Castro's neighbors Charles Ramsey and Angel Cordero, freed herself, her 6-year-old daughter, Knight and DeJesus. 
 
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 On Wednesday night, Castro, the man who allegedly held them against their will for so many years, was behind bars. 
 
 He'll be arraigned Thursday morning on four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape tied to the case, said Victor Perez, chief assistant prosecutor for the city of Cleveland. 
 
 The women found in his home, meanwhile, are back with family -- the same relatives who cried and struggled but, for the most part, never gave up hope. 
 
 "I knew my daughter was out there alive," said Felix DeJesus, Gina's father, moments after she arrived Wednesday afternoon at a family home in Cleveland. "I knew she needed me, and I never gave up." 
 
 Lured into a vehicle, then trapped in a home 
 
 Knight was 21 on August 22, 2002, when Castro lured her into his vehicle along Cleveland's Lorain Avenue, according to charging documents. Castro took her back to his home on Seymour Avenue, about three miles away, and didn't let her go. 
 
 In that time, Knight was sexually assaulted repeatedly, the documents state. But soon, she wasn't alone. 
 
 The next year -- on April 21, 2003, the eve of her 17th birthday -- Berry experienced the same nightmare scenario. While walking home from her job at Burger King that night, she too took a ride from Castro on Lorain Avenue. 
 
 Almost exactly a year later, they were joined by DeJesus, then all of 14 years old. 
 
 They remained in that hell until Monday evening, when Berry screamed for help. Hearing her cries, Ramsey and Cordero kicked in a door to help her escape. 
 
 According to Cordero, Berry's 6-year-old daughter ran out of the house too, wearing only a diaper and a sullied shirt. Police are conducting a DNA test to determine the child's paternity. 
 
 "Help me, I am Amanda Berry," Berry begged a 911 operator from Ramsey's house. "I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here, I'm free now." 
 
 Cleveland police Chief Michael McGrath told NBC's "Today" show that the women were bound and that there were "chains and ropes in the home." 
 
 There were no apparent constraints Monday, the law enforcement source with firsthand knowledge of the investigation said. Yet Knight and DeJesus didn't run out of the house with Berry although they could have, the source said, describing them as brainwashed and fearful. 
 
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 'Ariel kept everybody at a distance' 
 
 So how did this all happen in an urban neighborhood? Did Castro, a former school bus driver and upbeat and "outgoing" musician, according to one bandmate, keep such a secret from not only his neighbors but his family, as police allege? 
 
 Soon after the three women were found, Castro and two of his brothers who were with him were taken into custody. 
 
 Over the next two days, authorities officials "found no facts to link" Onil and Pedro Castro to the kidnappings -- though both brothers will appear in Cleveland Municipal Court on Thursday related to outstanding warrants on misdemeanor cases on other matters. 
 
 "Ariel kept everybody at a distance," Tomba said of the suspect, explaining why even his brothers and other family members (Castro talked on Facebook about having five grandchildren) apparently were in the dark. 
 
 Castro has been talking to investigators since Tuesday, as have the three young women police say he kidnapped and raped. 
 
 After those conversations, Tomba said he doesn't believe there are other victims -- including Ashley Summers, who was 14 when she went missing in the same part of Cleveland in 2007 -- or anyone other than Castro involved. 
 
 And since Monday, law enforcement personnel have combed through Castro's Seymour Avenue home -- which Tomba said was in "disarray" when officers first went in -- and removed more than 200 items that they hope will let them piece together what happened. 
 
 Additionally, FBI agents searched a boarded-up home two doors down after obtaining information over the past few days tying that building to the case, the deputy police chief explained. 
 
 Second-guessing if more could have been done 
 
 As they investigate, authorities are facing second-guessing as to whether any of this could have been prevented. Some comes from neighbors who say they contacted police about suspicious activity on Castro's property such as reports of screaming and naked women in his backyard. Authorities say they never got any such calls. 
 
 In fact, police say they had only been to Castro's house twice, once after he called about a fight on his street and in 2004 to investigate an incident in which he was accused of leaving a child alone on a bus. No one answered at the home, and investigators later interviewed him elsewhere, police said. 
 
 And according to court documents from 2005, Castro's former common-law wife accused him of repeatedly abusing her, including breaking her nose twice, breaking two ribs, dislocating her shoulder twice and knocking out a tooth. A judge granted a protection order but lifted it three months later. 
 
 Tomba, for one, said he doesn't think authorities dropped the ball. 
 
 "I'm just very, very confident (that) law enforcement officers ... checked every single lead, and if there was one bit of evidence (they would have) followed it up very, very aggressively," he said. 
 
 "In hindsight, we may find out that maybe we did, but that's going to be in hindsight." 
 
 Relief, joy as victims reunite with family 
 
 For the first time in years, relatives of Berry, DeJesus and Knight -- whom Perez described Wednesday as "safe and healthy" -- don't have only memories to fall back on. They can look forward, and move on with their lives. 
 
 Barbara Knight told "Today" that, as of Wednesday, she still hadn't talked with her daughter Michelle. Michelle Knight, now 32, was then in a Cleveland hospital in a good condition. 
 
 "She's probably angry at the world, because she thought she would never be found," Barbara Knight said. "But thank God that somebody did." 
 
 Asked what she would tell her daughter, her mother said, "I love you and I missed you all this time." 
 
 Well-wishers welcomed Berry and her daughter on Wednesday to a family home in Cleveland that was decorated with balloons and stuffed animals. 
 
 "We are so happy to have Amanda and her daughter home," said her sister, Beth Serrano. 
 
 A similar scene played out at a DeJesus family home, where relatives embraced their long-lost relative. 
 
 Sandra Ruiz said that her niece, DeJesus, is "ecstatic" to be back with her relatives. When the now 23-year-old arrived at the house, "she was happy, she looked at the house and she wanted a tour." 
 
 "What more can she say -- her face, her expression, her smile, (her) hugging says it all." ||||| In the Cleveland house where they were held for years on end, the three kidnapped women either remained chained in the basement or lived upstairs. Ariel Castro, who has been charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, reportedly kept the doors locked. On the rare occasion that the women did go outside, they were heavily disguised, according to police. NBC's Ron Allen reports. 
 
 The Cleveland man charged with holding three women captive for a decade impregnated one of them five times and punched her in the stomach until she miscarried, police said Wednesday in a chilling report on the kidnappings. 
 
 The man forced one of his captives, Michelle Knight, to deliver the baby of another captive, Amanda Berry, in a kiddie pool, and threatened to kill Knight if the baby died, police said. 
 
 Police made the revelations in a report that laid out a nightmarish captivity, including starvation and imprisonment in the basement. One official said the women apparently were allowed outside the house only twice, and briefly, in the years after they were captured. 
 
 The Cleveland city prosecutor charged the man, Ariel Castro, with four counts of kidnapping — one for each of the three women and one for a baby that was born to Berry six years ago. Castro was also charged with three counts of rape for each of the adult women. 
 
 But authorities filed no charges against two of Castro’s brothers who were arrested Monday night, after Berry escaped the house with the help of a neighbor and the other two women were freed. 
 
 Authorities said they had no evidence that the two brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were involved in the kidnappings. 
 
 The three captives — Berry, Knight and Gina DeJesus — were allowed only in the backyard when they were let outdoors at all, and were forced to wear wigs and sunglasses when they left the house, the report said. 
 
 The escape came on Monday, when Castro went to McDonald’s and left a “big inside door” unlocked, the report said. That was when Berry broke through a locked storm door, afraid to open it further because she worried that Castro was testing her, the report said. Berry made it out and called 911. 
 
 “From what we know, their only opportunity to escape was the other day when Amanda escaped,” said Ed Tomba, the deputy Cleveland police chief. 
 
 All three women told police that Castro initially chained them in the basement, the report said, but he ultimately let them live on the second floor of the home, a shabby, two-story dwelling on Cleveland’s West Side. 
 
 The women were not in the same room but did know the others were there, Tomba said. 
 
 “As far as what the circumstances were inside that home, and the control he may have had over those girls, we don’t know that yet,” he said. 
 
 According to the report, Knight told investigators that she carried Castro’s baby “at least” five times, and that when he found out, he “would make her abort the baby” — starving her for two weeks and repeatedly punching her in the stomach until she miscarried. 
 
 When Berry’s baby was born, Knight put her mouth to the baby’s to keep it alive — and keep herself alive because Castro had threatened to kill her, the report said. 
 
 Berry told investigators that none of the women had seen a doctor during their captivity, the report said. 
 
 One police source close to the investigation cautioned earlier in the day that it was hard to be sure the women’s memories were completely accurate after such a long time in captivity. 
 
 John Gress / Reuters Gina DeJesus arrives at her home in Cleveland. 
 
 Earlier Wednesday, DeJesus and Berry returned home to their families, both greeted by cheering crowds and huge displays of balloons, ribbons, teddy bears and encouraging signs. DeJesus gave a thumbs up. 
 
 “She was happy,” said her aunt, Sandra Ruiz. “She looked at the house and wanted a tour.” 
 
 Knight remained in a Cleveland hospital and was getting mental health treatment, her mother said. 
 
 Cleveland authorities said that a search of the Castro house had revealed no human remains. FBI agents returned to the house Wednesday and also searched a house two doors down that appeared to be abandoned. 
 
 Authorities said they did not suspect Castro had kidnapped anyone else. They said they had questioned Castro about the disappearance of a fourth Cleveland woman, Ashley Summers. 
 
 Castro was due in court Thursday morning for arraignment. The two brothers are also due in court Thursday, but on unrelated misdemeanor charges, authorities said. 
 
 “There is no evidence that these two individuals had any involvement in the commission of the crimes committed against Michelle, Gina, Amanda and the minor child,” said Victor Perez, the city prosecutor. 
 
 The three women were reported missing in Cleveland months apart: Knight in August 2002 after losing custody of her son, Berry in April 2003 after finishing her part-time shift at a Burger King, and DeJesus in April 2004 while walking home from middle school. 
 
 The police report suggests Castro used the same tactic to capture each of them: He offered them a ride. In Berry’s case, he told her he had a son who also worked at Burger King. 
 
 When Berry made her break for freedom years later, kicking the door and screaming, a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, helped free her. In her 911 call, Berry pleaded with the dispatcher to send help: “I’m Amanda Berry. I’ve been on the news for the last 10 years.” 
 
 When help came, two police officers crawled through a broken panel of the storm door and kicked it open to allow other officers in, the report said. 
 
 Two officers went upstairs, and the other two women threw themselves into the officers’ arms, it said. 
 
 Berry is now 27, DeJesus 23 and Knight 32. 
 
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 McGrath said that the house had come to the attention of police only twice — in 2000, when Ariel Castro called about a fight on the street, and in 2004, when Castro, a school bus driver, had left behind one of his passengers. 
 
 The chief’s account conflicts with that of at least one neighbor, Israel Lugo, who told MSNBC on Tuesday that he called the police in 2011 after his sister spotted a woman with a baby in the home, banging on the window “like she wants to get out.” 
 
 McGrath said that his department would have a record of such a call and that there was none. He said that he was “absolutely confident” that his officers did not miss a chance to free the three women. 
 
 Ariel Castro, 52, was accused in 2005 of attacking his former wife, The Plain Dealer newspaper reported. Her lawyer at the time said that although the ex-wife had custody of their children, Castro “frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from mother,’’ the newspaper reported. 
 
 Khalid Samad, a community organizer, told NBC News that Castro had accompanied him on searches for the missing women. 
 
 First lady Michelle Obama told NBC News that the kidnappings were “probably a parent’s worst nightmare.” 
 
 “These families are going to have to wrap their arms around these young women and make sure that they get all the help and support they need so that they will go on and lead healthy, normal lives,” she told TODAY. “We’re just grateful that they’re safe.” 
 
 Richard Esposito and Jeff Black of NBC News contributed to this report.
– One reason it took the women in the Cleveland kidnapping case so long to escape to the world just outside their door? Ariel Castro would "test" them for just such a scenario, reports CNN. According to a law enforcement source, he would pretend to leave the house then return suddenly to check if any of the women had moved, punishing them if they had. Even though the women watched the search efforts and vigils held for them on TV, they eventually "succumbed [to] their reality," says the source. Additionally, Berry's child, Jocelyn, was not told Michelle Knight's or Gina DeJesus' real names, in case she mentioned them when Castro took her out of the house, WKYC reports. When Berry did make her brave escape, she was afraid to break the locked storm door open in case this was another "test." A police report details their rescuers' arrival on the scene: "As we neared the top of the steps, Officer Espada hollered out, 'Cleveland Police,' at which time ... Knight ran and threw herself into (Officer) Espada's arms," says the report. "We then asked if there was anyone else upstairs with her, when (DeJesus) came out of the bedroom." WKYC notes that a public fund has been set up to provide services for the women. Castro, who has been formally charged, is due in court today.