Cleveland Kidnap Suspect's Daughter 'Embarrassed, Disappointed'
The daughter of the lone Cleveland man accused of kidnapping and raping three women for a decade says she is "disappointed" and "embarrassed" by her father's alleged actions.
"[I'm] just mainly devastated about this whole situation," Arlene Castro, 22, said today on " Good Morning America."
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Arlene Castro said she had not spoken to her father, Ariel Castro, since "late last month" and had "no idea" that her father, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, could have been the man who allegedly kidnapped and held three women - Amanda Berry, 27, Michele Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, 23 - against their will for about a decade.
Ariel Castro was charged Wednesday with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.
"Me and my father were never really that close," said Arlene Castro, who now lives in Indiana. "Every time we would talk it would just be short conversations, just a hello, how are you doing and let me know if you need anything and that was it."
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Police have made it clear they believe that each kidnap victim was "repeatedly sexually assaulted by the defendant," and that the abuse occurred "during the entire course of captivity," according to charging documents filed in court Wednesday.
They also believe the women were initially chained in the basement of the Cleveland home from which they escaped Monday after Berry managed to alert neighbors who got them out.
Arlene Castro, however, says she "never" witnessed any violence in her family's home. She also said she never saw Jocelyn, the 6-year-old girl delivered by Berry while she was held in captivity.
Jocelyn, police say, was the captive who had the most freedom. The 6-year-old left the house occasionally with the suspect, Cleveland Chief of Police Michael McGrath told ABC News. Police said they were conducting a paternity test and were not yet certain the baby was fathered by Castro.
"I have never met her before," Arlene Castro said on "GMA."
In a twist, Arlene was reportedly the last person to have seen one of the kidnapping victims, Gina DeJesus, her best friend at the time. In a 2005 interview with "America's Most Wanted" - a year after DeJesus disappeared - Arlene Castro said the two were walking together after school in April 2004 and separated after Arlene's mom told her to come home.
"My mom said, 'No,' I can't go over to [Gina's] house. I told her I couldn't. She said, Well, I'll talk to you later' and just walked," Arlene told "America's Most Wanted."
Now that her friend has been found, Arlene Castro has a message for her.
"I am absolutely so, so sorry," she said on "GMA," fighting back tears. "I really want to see Gina and I want you to meet my kids. I'm so sorry for everything."
ABC News' Russell Goldman contributed to this report.