A baby delivered on Christmas Day by a captive under threat of death, multiple miscarriages, repeated rapes and savage beatings -- all took place over a decade within the walls of an American home. Just days after three women and a six-year-old girl were rescued from Ariel Castro's house on Seymour Avenue in working class west Cleveland, horrifying allegations are emerging about the 10 years they spent as his prisoners.

Preliminary DNA results Friday confirmed that the man accused of kidnapping and raping three US women had fathered the girl rescued with them this week, Ohio's attorney general announced. Ariel Castro, a 52-year-old unemployed bus driver, is accused of snatching the three women in separate incidents around a decade ago and holding them captive in his home.

A 52-year-old US man has been charged with kidnapping and rape in connection with the abduction in Cleveland of three women who went missing a decade ago, a city prosecutor said Wednesday. Ariel Castro is accused of raping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight during their time in captivity in his home, city prosecutor Victor Perez told reporters. Castro faces four counts of kidnapping, related to DeJesus, Knight, Berry and Berry's six-year-old daughter, who was born in captivity. The rape charges do not relate to the child.

Washington, May 8 (EFE).- Ariel Castro, the main suspect in the kidnapping of three young women whom he held captive for more than a decade in his Cleveland home, was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three of rape, the assistant prosecutor for Cleveland, Victor Perez, said Wednesday. At a press conference, Perez said that two of Castro's brothers - Pedro, 54, and Onil, 50, who are also under arrest - at present have not had charges filed against them.