A DNA test has confirmed that suspect Ariel Castro, who allegedly raped and kidnapped three women and held them at his house for 10 years, fathered the 6-year-old child who escaped with the women on Tuesday.
According to a police report, Castro impregnated one of the captives, 27-year-old Amanda Berry, more than five times, and forced her to miscarry by starving her and punching her rounded stomach. The report also said that when Castro finally allowed Berry to give birth, she was forced to deliver the child in a plastic kiddie pool.
After her release from the house, Berry's 6-year-old daughter returned to the Berry household to meet her extended family.
Officials are using Castro's DNA profile to see if it could possibly link him to other sex crimes.
Members of the Castro family have stepped forward, offering chilling details about the strange and unusual Castro case.
They have characterized Ariel Castro as a "monster" who terrorized Berry, beating her on a weekly basis, playing twisted mind games and locking her and the two other women indoors for inordinate periods of time.
In separate interviews with different family members, each next-of-kin gave similar horrifying stories. These details came as a huge shock to people who knew Castro as a bass player who performed in multiple Cleveland bands.
Manager Miguel Quinones, who worked with a group Castro played with twice almost five years ago, said he didn't have anything bad to mention about his experiences with Castro.
Ariel Castro is still in jail, on an $8 million bond. He has been moved to a suicide watch ward, after a note he wrote dated 2004 surfaced in which Castro expounds on his plans to kill himself.
In the letter, he also admitted that he was a sexual predator who needed help. He said that his parents physically abused him as a child, in addition to an uncle raping him when he was young.
In a recent release from the Associated Press, it seems Castro could face the death penalty for his crimes.
