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We're 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 way off. joining me now is clinical psychologist david swansen. david, i want to delve into the psyc...

And here they come. and, again, that mixture of excitement and just pure thankfulness will be mixed with anger and rage and depression because for all of them, this is a big trauma and they have lost an awful lot of big part of their life, so much they missed out on and i think that's why you see the deep emotions set in, in addition to the excitement of seeing each other again. >> david swansen, clinical psychologist, david, thank you. again, we're here live in cleveland, special coverage in just a moment. but, first, he was a branch chief in the air force in charge of a sexual assault prev...

To be truly thankful for that. >> you know, on the plane ride up here, i was reading this article from back in 2009 about jaycee dugard and they pointed out that not only did she endure obviously emotional manipulation and she was repeatedly raped, but that the biggest challenge for her was actually separation from her captor, which is hard for us to wrap our heads around because these are bad guys doing these things to these young women. but explain that to me. >> well, brooke, that's a good point and so many of us who are not in that situation think to ourselves, if we have the chance, we wo...

Though they're much more powerful now in their 20s, when you have trauma like this, you tend to see an emotional arrest. when they go out in public, i think you'll still see that deep insecurity to the border of paranoia in that that can still be taken away. for these three girls, it is very important they get into some type of therapy and make sense of this. whenever there is a trauma, the first thing we want to know is why. we want to have meaning to apply to it, to make sense of it, so we know it won't happen again. that's going to be the focus of their therapy, to try to help them make sen...