Cleveland Women Abduction

• Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro sentenced to thousand years in jail

  An Ohio judge on Thursday sentenced Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to life in prison for abducting, raping and holding captive three women for as long as 11 years, and murder for forcing one of the women to abort her pregnancy.

• Three Ohio women freed from abduction ordeal release video

  Three young Ohio women freed two months ago from a decade of captivity in the home of a former school bus driver spoke publicly for the first time since their ordeal in a video released early on Tuesday thanking supporters and loved ones.

• Offers pour in to help Cleveland women freed from captivity

  Offers of help are pouring in from around the world for three Cleveland women who were kidnapped and held in captivity for a decade, with people offering cash, furniture and even use of a vacation home to help them rebuild their lives.

• Ohio abduction: suspect is father of captive girl, says official

  Tests confirmed that alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl who was rescued from his house with three women this week, the state's top prosecutor said on Friday.

• Ohio abduction: victims switched on 'auto-pilot' to survive

  To survive a 10-year ordeal of beatings and rapes at the hands of the Ohio kidnapper, his three victims may have shut down mentally on a form of "auto-pilot" to dull the trauma, psychologists say.

• Cleveland kidnapping victims endured decade of isolation, rape, beatings

  Three young women newly freed from a decade-long kidnapping ordeal in Cleveland endured their captivity in the dungeon-like confines of a squalid house, where they were raped, starved, beaten and kept in chains by the man who abducted them, authorities said on Wednesday.

• Ohio abduction: Man in custody helped look for missing women

  One of the suspects in the case of three women who were rescued this week, 10 years after they went missing, had been active in neighborhood searches and vigils for the women, neighbors say.

• Ohio abduction: Chains and ropes found in house, says police chief

  US police investigating the decade-long kidnap of three Ohio women found ropes and chains in the house where they were held, Cleveland police chief Michael McGrath told NBC television on Wednesday.

• Kidnapping ordeal of three US women went undetected for decade

  Three Ohio women newly freed from a decade-long kidnapping ordeal huddled privately with loved ones on Tuesday as police scoured the Cleveland house where the captives had been held, seeking clues to how their confinement went unnoticed for so long.

• Ohio abduction: Authorities visited house in 2004 where women were found, says police

  The three Cleveland women found alive after vanishing in their own neighborhood for about a decade were rescued from a house that authorities tried to visit several years ago, police said on Tuesday.

• Three Ohio women rescued a decade after they vanished

  An Ohio school bus driver and his two brothers have been arrested after three women who vanished separately as teenagers about a decade ago were found alive at a Cleveland house.