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Were working on getting her photograph for you. and gina dejesus, she was all of 14 when she was reported missing back on april 2nd, 2004. she was last seen walking home from school. a relative says her family actually had known the suspect here who lived on this street where these young women were found yesterday. they actually went some years back, this connection, with ariel castro. so it was a decade in captivity for the three young women here in cleveland. and the road to normal is a long w...

Of the organization told me this morning that he expects yesterdays rescue to be a very hot topic tonight and that many of the victims will offer their own words of wisdom to the three women rescued yesterday. for the families of the three young women who spent a decade in captivity, its a blessing to have them back. >> he has always believed gina was live and well. she always believed that. you know, i just want to say what a phenomenal mothers day gift she gets this mothers day. >> reporter: f...

Never lost hope now have their loved ones back. a short time ago we heard from the aunt of gina dejisz, one of the three young women who was discovered safe yesterday. >> those women are so strong. what we do out here, what weve done in ten years is nothing compared to what those women have done together to survive. >> a decade in captivity, though. from atlanta now i want to bring in cmn legal analyst joey jackson and former juvenile court judge tv host and author glenda hatchet. i want to begi...

They were held captive, and then they were rescued, years later. today, those young women have been reunited with their families. out of the hospital, theyre back at their new home. but this isnt the only time that people have been kidnapped, vanished for years, most of them presumed dead. and then are somehow reunited with their families. let me go through some of these. you remember the jaycee dugard case, she was abducted in 91, outside of her home in california. and then she was held in a co...

Happens to hornbeck and the same way it happened to elizabeth smart. they were taken either in their home or very close to their homes. we know one of these brothers, we believe, was a bus driver. all of the girls were taken in their early or late teens from very near their homes. we also know the brothe knew amandas family. you have a milial connection. you have them taken from their homes and being held close to their homes. this is not necessarily stranger on stranger. there is a connection. ...

And exploited childrens hope awards. she was kept in the backyard for 18 years and raped repeatedly by her kidnapper and had two children. so it is phenomenal that these girls are alive. and the first thing that they need, and i saw the doctor in the press conference who really didnt say anything at the hospital theyre at, the first thing they need is counseling. the first thing is a psychiatrist. i hope theyre healthy, and im sure they are. but think what it must be like to bear a child, to lov...

And exploited childrens hope awards. she was kept in the backyard for 18 years and raped repeatedly by her kidnapper and had two children. so it is phenomenal that these girls are alive. and the first thing that they need, and i saw the doctor in the press conference who really didnt say anything at the hospital theyre at, the first thing they need is counseling. the first thing is a psychiatrist. i hope theyre healthy, and im sure they are. but think what it must be like to bear a child, to lov...

Dugard who was, as you know, found in 2009 after 18 years in captivity, so the message is there is always hope, and these families, as i have heard them speak, they never gave up hope. they had faith that they would see their children again, and that is the message and the commitment that we have at the national center, and we work with families who are still looking for their children, and they actually provide a peer support network called band of hope. they work together, they work with law e...

Are said to be in good condition tonight despite their years in captivity. so the situation, how they were treated, fed, whether they were chained, we just dont know the answers to those questions, but we can tell you they all were in very solid condition in the hospital. still to come, it has now been called the house of horrors. what investigators are finding. they were in there today in the house where the girls were held. and whats next for the women rescued in ohio? that one of the most dau...

Her mother kept her case in the public eye until miller died in 2006. she was seen locally as a very determined mom, who simply never gave up, and it seems her daughter, aman da, shared that determination. breaking free and breaking open a case that the cops had never been able to solve. listen. >> the real hero here is amanda. i mean, she is the real hero. she is the one that got this rolling. were just -- were following her lead. without her, none of us would be here today. >> hard to imagine ...