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| Cleveland kidnaps: Ariel Castro faces 329 charges | Cleveland kidnaps: Ariel Castro faces 329 charges |
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| A man from Cleveland, Ohio, accused of imprisoning three women for about a decade in his home has been indicted by a grand jury for rape and kidnapping. | |
| Ariel Castro faces 329 charges, with 139 counts of rape, 177 of kidnapping, seven of gross sexual imposition, three of assault, and owning criminal tools. | Ariel Castro faces 329 charges, with 139 counts of rape, 177 of kidnapping, seven of gross sexual imposition, three of assault, and owning criminal tools. |
| The grand jury also indicted him for one count of aggravated murder for the calculated termination of a pregnancy. | The grand jury also indicted him for one count of aggravated murder for the calculated termination of a pregnancy. |
| The women were Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23. | The women were Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23. |
| Last month, the 52-year-old was charged with three counts of rape and four of kidnapping, which includes a six-year-old girl he fathered with Ms Berry. | |
| Mr Castro is due to be formally arraigned on the new charges next week, when a trial judge will also be appointed to his case, prosecutors said. | |
| He will plead not guilty to any indictment, his legal team has said. | |
| The accused is being held on $8m (£5m) bail. Prison officials said this week he had been taken off suicide watch. | |
| "Today's indictments represent a first major step in the criminal justice process," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said in a statement. | |
| "Our investigation continues, and we will present our findings to the grand jury." | |
| After the indictment is complete, a committee would consider whether to press for the death penalty in this case, the prosecutor's statement said. | |
| Ms Berry, who disappeared in 2003 the day before her 17th birthday, escaped from Mr Castro's house on 6 May with the help of a neighbour. | |
| The other women were then freed from the house. They were all reportedly abducted after accepting car rides from Mr Castro. | |
| Ms Knight vanished in 2002 when she was 20. Ms DeJesus was 14 when she went missing in April 2004. |