CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy I. McGinty has filed a sentencing memorandum with the court detailing Ariel Castro's crimes and outlining the seriousness of his offenses. 
 
 It includes details of how Casto managed to kidnap Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight and the conditions he forced them to live in during their decade in captivity. 
 
 It states, for instance, that Castro lured Knight into his car and then "enticed her to go" inside his house "with promises of a puppy for her son." 
 
 The memorandum also describes how Castro controlled the movements of the women, keeping them in locked rooms and using physical restraints. 
 
 "There is only one bathroom in the house, on the first floor," the memorandum states. "The Defendant would not allow the victims downstairs to use the bathroom. They only had access to plastic toilets in the bedrooms. They were emptied infrequently." 
 
 The memorandum also includes an evaluation by a clinical professor of psychiatry who describes the emotional toll that the 10 years of captivity had on the women. 
 
 Frank M. Ochberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University, also marvels at the women's resiliency. He writes how Berry kept a diary, usually addressing it to her mother, and that after her mother died, she "wrote to her mother in heaven, seeking to soothe her mother" and praying for deliverance and the health of her daughter. 
 
 Berry gave birth to a girl while being imprisoned by Castro. DNA testing has shown that Castro is the father. 
 
 McGinty spokesman Joe Frolik said the purpose of the memorandum is to help establish a record that will serve as justification for Castro's sentence should it ever come under review in the future. 
 
 Castro is expected to be sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole, plus a minimum of 1,000 years. 
 
 Castro admitted kidnapping Berry, DeJesus and Knight and raping them time and again during the decade of captivity in his Seymour Avenue home. He pleaded guilty last week to hundreds of counts of rape and kidnapping, as well a two counts of aggravated murder. 
 
 The murder charges stem from Castro forcing one of the women to miscarry a child. 
 
 The memorandum states that diaries kept by the women "speak of forced sexual conduct, of being locked in a dark room, of anticipating the next session of abuse, of the dreams of someday escaping and being reunited with family, of being chained to a wall, of being held like a prisoner of war, of missing the lives they once enjoyed, of emotional abuse, of his threats to kill, of being treated like an animal, or continuous abuse, and of desiring freedom." 
 
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 Ropes, chains removed from Cleveland house, but the women have not commented 
 
 Neighbors say they reported suspicious activity, but police deny those calls were made 
 
 The startling discovery that three women had been held captive for a decade inside a Cleveland home has answered key questions from their families and raised a slew of others. 
 
 Here are some of the most pressing: 
 
 What was life like for the victims? 
 
 Ropes and chains taken as evidence from the modest, two-story home on Seymour Avenue where the women were held were used to restrain the women, Police Chief Michael McGrath told NBC's "Today." "We have confirmation that they were bound," he said. 
 
 But Public Safety Director Martin Flask said it was not clear what they were used for. 
 
 Victor Perez, chief assistant prosecutor for Cleveland, announced Wednesday that charges against Ariel Castro include four counts of kidnapping -- one each for Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and a 6-year-old girl who was born to Berry in captivity. 
 
 Those charges also address the question of whether the women were sexually abused. Castro, 52, faces three counts of rape, Perez said, adding that a grand jury could later indict him on additional charges. 
 
 Two of Castro's brothers who also were arrested after the women's escape Monday evening will not be charged, according to the prosecutor. Perez said "there is no evidence these two individuals had any involvement." 
 
 As to the victims, two of them returned home Wednesday. But they have not made public statements as they seek to be reacquainted with family and friends. 
 
 The interior of their prison was unremarkable, according to Tito DeJesus. The sometime bandmate of the homeowner, suspect Ariel Castro, said he entered the house about two years ago to to help deliver a washer and dryer and saw "a normal environment." 
 
 "It didn't seem to be a place where women were being held against their will," he said. "Of course, mind you, I didn't go throughout the entire house. I was just at the beginning of the house, in the living room, but it seemed normal." 
 
 The one-bathroom house has a living area of 1,436 square feet, with a living room inside the front door, a dining room and a kitchen on the ground floor, according to Cuyahoga County records. 
 
 The four bedrooms are all on the second floor. Because the ground is sandy and loose in the area, basements in the area tend to be smaller than the footprints of the houses above, which are usually damp and cold in the winter. 
 
 The basement of the house, which was built in 1890 and renovated in 1956, is not finished. 
 
 How did their years of captivity go unnoticed? 
 
 Looking back on it, would police or neighbors done anything differently to increase the chances of discovering the imprisoned women? 
 
 And was Monday's escape by Berry the first time in a decade that any of the women had been able to signal anyone in the neighborhood about their plight? 
 
 Some neighbors of Ariel Castro have second-guessed themselves, asking if they could have prevented the horrors had they noticed details that now seem out of place. 
 
 For example, neighbor Daniel Marti -- who has described Castro as an "outgoing person, very nice guy" -- asked why he didn't question why the single man frequently carried bags full of McDonald's food into the house where he appeared to live alone, or why he frequently steered conversation away from it. 
 
 "Now that I think of it, he didn't want nobody back there," said Marti, who said he has known Ariel Castro since junior high school and lived near him for some 22 years. 
 
 Neighbors Israel Lugo and Nina Samoylicz told CNN that they had called police in recent years to report separate incidents at the home. 
 
 Samoylicz said she and others saw a naked woman in the home and called police. 
 
 Faliceonna Lopez, Samoylicz's sister, told a different version Tuesday night on CNN's "Piers Morgan Live." She said after seeing the woman, they told their mother, not police. 
 
 The mother, Annita Lugo, told Morgan that she didn't call police, either. 
 
 Another neighbor, Israel Lugo -- Annita Lugo's brother -- says he called police in 2011 when he heard yelling in the Castro home. Officers left when no one answered the door, Lugo says. 
 
 If neighbors' accounts were true and the police really heard screaming and simply knocked on the door and left when no one answered, then "law enforcement clearly dropped the ball," attorney Lisa Bloom told CNN. 
 
 "It was almost like a Keystone Cops situation," prominent attorney Mark Geragos added. "There's got to be much more to this story." 
 
 Cleveland officials denied claims that they had called police to report suspicious activity at the home. 
 
 "Media reports of multiple calls to the Cleveland Police reporting suspicious activity and the mistreatment of women at 2207 Seymour are false," spokeswoman Maureen Harper said in an e-mailed statement. 
 
 Other officials said call records contained no evidence that neighbors had called police to report unusual activity at the home. 
 
 Police say they went to the address once in 2000, before the abductions, when Castro reported a fight outside his home, and in 2004, after two of the three women had disappeared. 
 
 The latter visit was to investigate a complaint that Castro had left a child alone on the bus he was to have been driving. No one answered the door at the home, and investigators later interviewed him elsewhere, police say. 
 
 Are there more victims? 
 
 Police have used at least one cadaver dog to search for human remains; they said they have so far found none. They also have said they want to know whether there could be any additional victims in the case. 
 
 Investigators had speculated that the disappearances of Berry, DeJesus and another girl, Ashley Summers , may have been connected. Summers' family last saw her in July 2007, when she was 14. 
 
 Now the Summers family is hoping that the Cleveland investigation will yield information about Ashley, her aunt, Debra Summers, said. 
 
 "We're hoping for a miracle," she said. 
 
 An FBI spokeswoman said investigators will question the women found Monday in hopes of learning something about Summers' disappearance. 
 
 Tonia Adkins said she was hoping that her sister Christina was among the women who were freed Monday. Then 18 and five months pregnant, Christina Adkins disappeared in 1995 while walking toward her boyfriend's house on the same block where one of the Castro brothers lived and a few streets away from where the other women were last seen, she said. 
 
 "She was going home for the night and she disappeared," she said. "We just really want to find out where she is and is she OK." 
 
 According to court documents, Ariel Castro's former wife accused him of repeatedly abusing her, including breaking her nose twice, breaking two ribs, dislocating her shoulder twice and knocking out a tooth. 
 
 Grimilda Figueroa also accused Castro of causing a blood clot on her brain, according to the 2005 documents. 
 
 A judge granted a protection order but lifted it three months later after court delays and hearings Castro did not attend, according to the documents. 
 
 Ishmael Figueroa, Grimilda's father, told CNN that when Ariel Castro and his daughter moved into the house on Seymour Avenue, Ariel Castro would not let let any other family members enter the home. 
 
 After the couple broke up, his daughter moved back with her parents and said she never wanted to talk about Castro, Figueroa said. She died last year at age 48, according to Social Security records. 
 
 Ariel Castro's uncle Julio also recalled his nephew's messy breakup. 
 
 Castro seemed to live alone after that, except for occasional visits by, among others, his two brothers. 
 
 He also had grandchildren -- at least five, he'd recently noted on Facebook. 
 
 Some news outlets have reported that at least one of the three women gave birth more than once during their years in captivity. Those news outlets cited unnamed sources. Investigators have not publicly confirmed or denied those assertions, saying it will take time to piece together a complete picture of what happened inside the house. ||||| In the Cleveland house where they were held for years on end, the three kidnapped women either remained chained in the basement or lived upstairs. Ariel Castro, who has been charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, reportedly kept the doors locked. On the rare occasion that the women did go outside, they were heavily disguised, according to police. NBC's Ron Allen reports. 
 
 The Cleveland man charged with holding three women captive for a decade impregnated one of them five times and punched her in the stomach until she miscarried, police said Wednesday in a chilling report on the kidnappings. 
 
 The man forced one of his captives, Michelle Knight, to deliver the baby of another captive, Amanda Berry, in a kiddie pool, and threatened to kill Knight if the baby died, police said. 
 
 Police made the revelations in a report that laid out a nightmarish captivity, including starvation and imprisonment in the basement. One official said the women apparently were allowed outside the house only twice, and briefly, in the years after they were captured. 
 
 The Cleveland city prosecutor charged the man, Ariel Castro, with four counts of kidnapping — one for each of the three women and one for a baby that was born to Berry six years ago. Castro was also charged with three counts of rape for each of the adult women. 
 
 But authorities filed no charges against two of Castro’s brothers who were arrested Monday night, after Berry escaped the house with the help of a neighbor and the other two women were freed. 
 
 Authorities said they had no evidence that the two brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were involved in the kidnappings. 
 
 The three captives — Berry, Knight and Gina DeJesus — were allowed only in the backyard when they were let outdoors at all, and were forced to wear wigs and sunglasses when they left the house, the report said. 
 
 The escape came on Monday, when Castro went to McDonald’s and left a “big inside door” unlocked, the report said. That was when Berry broke through a locked storm door, afraid to open it further because she worried that Castro was testing her, the report said. Berry made it out and called 911. 
 
 “From what we know, their only opportunity to escape was the other day when Amanda escaped,” said Ed Tomba, the deputy Cleveland police chief. 
 
 All three women told police that Castro initially chained them in the basement, the report said, but he ultimately let them live on the second floor of the home, a shabby, two-story dwelling on Cleveland’s West Side. 
 
 The women were not in the same room but did know the others were there, Tomba said. 
 
 “As far as what the circumstances were inside that home, and the control he may have had over those girls, we don’t know that yet,” he said. 
 
 According to the report, Knight told investigators that she carried Castro’s baby “at least” five times, and that when he found out, he “would make her abort the baby” — starving her for two weeks and repeatedly punching her in the stomach until she miscarried. 
 
 When Berry’s baby was born, Knight put her mouth to the baby’s to keep it alive — and keep herself alive because Castro had threatened to kill her, the report said. 
 
 Berry told investigators that none of the women had seen a doctor during their captivity, the report said. 
 
 One police source close to the investigation cautioned earlier in the day that it was hard to be sure the women’s memories were completely accurate after such a long time in captivity. 
 
 John Gress / Reuters Gina DeJesus arrives at her home in Cleveland. 
 
 Earlier Wednesday, DeJesus and Berry returned home to their families, both greeted by cheering crowds and huge displays of balloons, ribbons, teddy bears and encouraging signs. DeJesus gave a thumbs up. 
 
 “She was happy,” said her aunt, Sandra Ruiz. “She looked at the house and wanted a tour.” 
 
 Knight remained in a Cleveland hospital and was getting mental health treatment, her mother said. 
 
 Cleveland authorities said that a search of the Castro house had revealed no human remains. FBI agents returned to the house Wednesday and also searched a house two doors down that appeared to be abandoned. 
 
 Authorities said they did not suspect Castro had kidnapped anyone else. They said they had questioned Castro about the disappearance of a fourth Cleveland woman, Ashley Summers. 
 
 Castro was due in court Thursday morning for arraignment. The two brothers are also due in court Thursday, but on unrelated misdemeanor charges, authorities said. 
 
 “There is no evidence that these two individuals had any involvement in the commission of the crimes committed against Michelle, Gina, Amanda and the minor child,” said Victor Perez, the city prosecutor. 
 
 The three women were reported missing in Cleveland months apart: Knight in August 2002 after losing custody of her son, Berry in April 2003 after finishing her part-time shift at a Burger King, and DeJesus in April 2004 while walking home from middle school. 
 
 The police report suggests Castro used the same tactic to capture each of them: He offered them a ride. In Berry’s case, he told her he had a son who also worked at Burger King. 
 
 When Berry made her break for freedom years later, kicking the door and screaming, a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, helped free her. In her 911 call, Berry pleaded with the dispatcher to send help: “I’m Amanda Berry. I’ve been on the news for the last 10 years.” 
 
 When help came, two police officers crawled through a broken panel of the storm door and kicked it open to allow other officers in, the report said. 
 
 Two officers went upstairs, and the other two women threw themselves into the officers’ arms, it said. 
 
 Berry is now 27, DeJesus 23 and Knight 32. 
 
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 McGrath said that the house had come to the attention of police only twice — in 2000, when Ariel Castro called about a fight on the street, and in 2004, when Castro, a school bus driver, had left behind one of his passengers. 
 
 The chief’s account conflicts with that of at least one neighbor, Israel Lugo, who told MSNBC on Tuesday that he called the police in 2011 after his sister spotted a woman with a baby in the home, banging on the window “like she wants to get out.” 
 
 McGrath said that his department would have a record of such a call and that there was none. He said that he was “absolutely confident” that his officers did not miss a chance to free the three women. 
 
 Ariel Castro, 52, was accused in 2005 of attacking his former wife, The Plain Dealer newspaper reported. Her lawyer at the time said that although the ex-wife had custody of their children, Castro “frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from mother,’’ the newspaper reported. 
 
 Khalid Samad, a community organizer, told NBC News that Castro had accompanied him on searches for the missing women. 
 
 First lady Michelle Obama told NBC News that the kidnappings were “probably a parent’s worst nightmare.” 
 
 “These families are going to have to wrap their arms around these young women and make sure that they get all the help and support they need so that they will go on and lead healthy, normal lives,” she told TODAY. “We’re just grateful that they’re safe.” 
 
 Richard Esposito and Jeff Black of NBC News contributed to this report. ||||| CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver accused of kidnapping and holding three women captive for years pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to hundreds of criminal charges, but his lawyers said they are seeking a plea agreement to avert a trial. 
 
 Ariel Castro, 52, is shown in this Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office booking photo taken on May 9, 2013. Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters 
 
 A grand jury on Friday added 648 charges to a previous indictment against Ariel Castro, bringing the total number of charges against him to 977. 
 
 Castro, 53, is accused of abducting the first of the women in 2002 and holding them captive until they escaped from his house on May 6 along with a 6-year-old girl he fathered with one of the women. 
 
 During a brief court appearance, a lawyer for Castro entered the not guilty plea and the judge kept in place an $8 million bond, and an order that Castro have no contact with the three women and the child. 
 
 Law enforcement officials have said that the women, Gina DeJesus, 23, Michelle Knight, 32, and Amanda Berry, 27, were kept bound in chains or rope for periods of time and that they endured starvation, beatings and repeated sexual assaults. 
 
 The most serious of the charges against Castro, two counts of aggravated murder under a fetal homicide law over allegations he forced Knight to miscarry, could potentially carry a death sentence if prosecutors choose to pursue it. 
 
 Joe Frolik, a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, told reporters a committee that considers death penalty charges is still deliberating and prosecutors have reserved the right to bring a third indictment that includes a death penalty charge. 
 
 According to the indictment, Knight was pregnant at least three times from September 2002 to December 2003. Castro’s aggravated murder charge stems from allegations that he forced her to miscarry in a fourth pregnancy from 2006 to 2007. 
 
 But legal experts have said that it would be difficult to prove murder without physical evidence of the miscarriage. 
 
 Castro has not sought to delay the start of his trial, which is scheduled for August 5, but defense attorneys again said on Wednesday they are seeking a plea agreement in the case. 
 
 “We are preparing for that trial however with the goal in mind to try to resolve this for the fairness of the women as well as the community so everyone can put this behind them,” Castro’s attorney, Craig Weintraub, told reporters. 
 
 “Either we are going to have a plea or we are going to have a trial on August 5,” he said. 
 
 Ian Friedman, a Cleveland lawyer who defended a teenager who opened fire at an Ohio school last year killing three people, said he would be shocked if the Castro trial begins as early as August 5 because of the complexity and number of charges. 
 
 “Ariel Castro will never leave prison to the taste of freedom. This case is only about whether he receives life (in prison) or death,” Friedman said. 
 
 Castro is charged with kidnapping the three women from 2002 to 2004 and brutalizing them over the next 10 years. He is also charged with kidnapping the 6-year-old girl and three counts of endangering her. 
 
 In Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, Castro’s lawyers waived a reading of the full indictment, which also includes 512 counts of kidnapping, 446 counts of rape, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, six counts of felony assault, and one count of possessing tools such as a Ruger handgun used to aid in the crimes. 
 
 Judge Pamela Barker summarized the charges against Castro. When she asked if he understood the charges, Castro replied, “yes.” Barker several times told Castro, who was wearing orange prison clothes, to raise his head and to open his eyes. 
 
 DNA evidence has confirmed that Castro was the father of the girl, who was born to Berry. At a court appearance in early July, Castro asked to be allowed jail visits from his daughter. A judge rejected the request immediately as “not appropriate.” ||||| A former school bus driver being sentenced Thursday for kidnapping three women and subjecting them to years of sexual and physical abuse left behind a letter that said "I'm a sexual predator," an FBI agent testified. 
 
 Ariel Castro, center, listens in the courtroom during the sentencing phase Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. Defense attorney's Craig Weintraub, left, and Jaye Schlachet sit beside Castro. Three... (Associated Press) 
 
 Ariel Castro listens in the courtroom during the sentencing phase Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. Three months after an Ohio woman kicked out part of a door to end nearly a decade of captivity,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Ariel Castro sits close to a model of the house on Seymour Ave. , where three women were held in the courtroom during the sentencing phase Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. Three months after an Ohio... (Associated Press) 
 
 Ariel Castro rubs his nose in the courtroom during the sentencing phase Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. Three months after an Ohio woman kicked out part of a door to end nearly a decade of captivity,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Prosecutors detailed Ariel Castro's assaults and law enforcement witnesses described the jury-rigged prison he built in his ramshackle home. With the possibility of the death penalty for a forced miscarriage taken off the table, Castro stands to get life in prison plus 1,000 years. 
 
 FBI agent Andrew Burke said Castro turned his house into a prison by creating a makeshift alarm system and chaining them inside bolted bedrooms. 
 
 Bedroom windows were boarded shut from the inside with heavy closet doors and doorknobs had been removed and replaced with multiple locks, he said. The house was divided in ways to make it more secure and to hide the existence of rooms, he said. 
 
 Burke also testified that Castro would occasionally pay his victims after raping them. But he then would require them to pay him if they wanted something special from the store. 
 
 The letter written by Castro was found in his home and shown in court. It read "Confession and Details" at the top. 
 
 Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Detective Dave Jacobs said he talked with Castro a few days after the women escaped and that Castro said, "I knew what I did was wrong." 
 
 Early in the hearing, Castro tried to apologize to the victims, but after speaking with the judge said he would do that later in the proceeding. 
 
 A police officer who helped rescue the women said one was reluctant to come out of her room even when she saw the officers. They were scared even after they were taken out of the house and quickly began sharing details about the horrors they went through, saying that they had been starved and beaten. 
 
 "They were just shouting out a lot of things," said Cleveland police officer Barb Johnson. She described the women as thin, pale and scared. 
 
 Responding to questions from prosecutors, Cleveland police detective Andrew Harasimchuk said that the women all described a pattern of being physically, sexually and emotionally assaulted for years. He said all three women were abducted after Castro offered them a ride and that each was chained in his basement and sexually assaulted within a few hours of being kidnapped. 
 
 Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday that Castro, who fed his captives only one meal a day, "admits his disgusting and inhuman conduct" but "remains remorseless for his actions." 
 
 The memorandum described a diary kept by one of the women. 
 
 "The entries speak of forced sexual conduct, of being locked in a dark room, of anticipating the next session of abuse, of the dreams of someday escaping and being reunited with family, of being chained to a wall, of being held like a prisoner of war ... of being treated like an animal," it says. 
 
 The sentencing could take up to four hours, court officials said, with Castro, his attorneys, his victims and prosecution witnesses getting a chance to speak. The legal team representing the women's interests declined to comment on whether they would testify or send statements to the court. 
 
 Prosecutors used a model of the house where Castro, 53, imprisoned the women to present their case. They also showed photos taken from inside the disheveled home. 
 
 The women quickly escaped after Amanda Berry kicked out the door panel on May 6 and Castro was arrested within hours. The women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. 
 
 Some horrific details of the women's ordeal had already emerged, including tales of being chained to poles in the basement or a bedroom heater or inside a van, with one woman forced to wear a motorcycle helmet while chained in the basement and, after she tried to escape, having a vacuum cord wrapped around her neck. 
 
 Castro repeatedly starved and beat one of the victims each time she was pregnant, forcing her to miscarry five times. 
 
 He forced the same woman on threat of death to safely deliver the child he fathered with another victim on Christmas Day 2006. The same day, prosecutors say, Castro raped the woman who helped deliver his daughter. 
 
 As part of his plea deal, Castro was to receive a sentence of life with no chance of parole for aggravated murder in the forced miscarriage. He would then receive 1,000 years for the kidnapping, rape, assault and other charges. 
 
 Berry, 27, made a surprise onstage appearance at a rap concert last weekend, and a second victim, Gina DeJesus, 23, has made a few televised comments. Knight, 32, appeared with Berry and DeJesus in a video in early July thanking the community for its support. 
 
 Knight, the first of three to disappear, also sent police a handwritten letter thanking them for their help collecting cards and gifts for the women. In the note, Knight told Second District Cmdr. Keith Sulzer, "Life is tough, but I'm tougher!" 
 
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 Welsh-Huggins reported from Columbus, Ohio.
– Ariel Castro has been sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping and other charges related to the three women he held captive in his home for 10 years, the AP reports. Castro spoke at his sentencing hearing today, insisting that "these people are trying to paint me as a monster and I'm not a monster. I'm sick," CNN reports. "I believe I am addicted to porn to the point that it makes me impulsive and I lost it." He also described himself as "a happy person," a "very emotional person," and said he's "not trying to make excuses." (Click for the heartbreaking testimony of Michelle Knight, one of the victims.) More of the testimony coming out, per the AP: A letter left behind by Castro and found in his house read, "I'm a sexual predator," an FBI agent testified. It was titled "Confession and Details." A Cleveland police officer says two of the women rescued from Castro's house jumped into her arms, crying "Save us, save us!" and that one of the victims was reluctant to leave her room at first while another had difficulty breathing. A Cleveland police detective said all three women were abducted after Castro offered them a ride and that each was chained in his basement and sexually assaulted within a few hours of being kidnapped. The FBI agent testified that Castro created a makeshift alarm system and removed doorknobs, among other things, to turn his house into a prison. He also testified that Castro would occasionally pay his victims after raping them, but he then would require them to pay him if they wanted something special from the store. In a court filing, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor said Castro chained his captives by their ankles, fed them only one meal a day, and provided plastic toilets in their bedrooms that were infrequently emptied. At one point, he locked all of them in a vehicle in his garage for three days while he had a visitor, according to the filing. Details also came out of how Castro used his own children to lure the victims into his car and home.