michelle knight into his house. he takes her down to the basement where she s physically retrained with a chain, plastic ties are put on her wrists and a motorcycle helmet is placed on her head. at this time she s sexual assaulted. reporter: to her joy on the day she was finally rescued. she literally launched herself into the officer s arms. he legs, arms, just choking him and she just kept repeating you saved us, you saved us. reporter: family members spoke for amanda berry and dee jesus. she s strong beautiful inside and out and doing better every day. to ariel castro, may got have mercy on your soul. gracias and thank you. reporter: in the end women relied on each other for
0 art. italy has always stood for so many wonderful things. we really wanted to explain to these young people that there is hope, that you can get recognized, that there can be a future. reporter: for out front i m reporter: for out front i m malina chow. captions by vitac www.vitac.com erin, thanks very much. the words from a man that says he s not a monster and the proud, brave words from one of the three women who says he was that, a captorer, rapist, monitor, the three women endured all of that year after year held captive by ariel castro in his torture chamber cleveland, ohio home. they were victimized but not victims. aman amanda, gina and michelle are survivors. calling them a monitor s victims gives him too much credit. he needs to be forgiven. he got a life sentence today plus a thousand years. that s what a judge gave him after michelle knight s statement. it s rare to see someone who may be a true psychopath justify their crimes. today in court on live televi
i mean, this is history. this is an important case to this community. and the world wants to know. criminal proceedings are public proceedings. these prosecutors are public servants. tim mcginnty is an elected district attorney and what he s doing right now, he s telling his constituents, look, this is the work we did in this case. we were ready to go. all right. let s listen to this testimony. this is a former detective and he s talking about amanda berry. let s listen. at this time ariel castro physically restrained her with a chain attached to a center support pole in the basement, put plastic ties on her wrists. it was at this time that gina dee jesus was first sexually assaulted. during this interview, george evena dejesus described a repeat pattern being emotionally assaulted by castro during the entire time she was held captive. she said on may 6th, 2013 when they escaped she heard