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| Ariel Castro faces rape and kidnap charges in Ohio case | Ariel Castro faces rape and kidnap charges in Ohio case |
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| The owner of the Ohio house from where three women were rescued this week a decade after they went missing faces four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, say US prosecutors. | |
| Ariel Castro, 52, will appear in court on Thursday. His brothers Pedro, 54, and Onil, 50, will not be charged. | |
| Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23 and Michelle Knight, 32, were found in the Cleveland house on Monday. | Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23 and Michelle Knight, 32, were found in the Cleveland house on Monday. |
| Cleveland's police chief has said the women were bound with ropes and chains. | Cleveland's police chief has said the women were bound with ropes and chains. |
| Police told a news briefing in the city that more than 200 pieces of evidence had been taken from the home where the three women were held captive. | |
| Police said interviews with the women had given them enough information to charge Ariel Castro. | |
| But prosecutor Victor Perez there was nothing that led police to believe his brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, "were involved or had any knowledge" of the alleged crime. | |
| Ms Berry, who disappeared in 2003 aged 16, escaped on Monday with the help of a neighbour who heard her screaming and kicking a door while her alleged captor was out of the house. | |
| When police arrived they also found Ms DeJesus, 23, and Ms Knight, 32, in the house. | |
| Ms DeJesus had gone missing aged 14 in 2004, while Ms Knight had disappeared in 2002, aged 20. |