According to published reports, Amanda Berry reunited with her old sister, Beth Serrano, for the first time after being abducted over ten years ago. Berry and two other women who were snatched in separate incidents and held against their wills were found alive yesterday at the home of Ariel Castro in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Amanda Berry and her six-year-old daughter, who was born while Berry was imprisoned, are under observation at Cleveland’s Metro Health Medical Center where they have been listed in fair condition.

Berry, who is now 27, was kidnapped on her way home from her job at Burger King a day before her seventeenth birthday on April 21, 2003. She was discovered along with Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were also missing for a decade, at 2207 Seymour Ave. in Cleveland.

Louwanna Miller, Berry’s mother, died of heart failure in 2006 after searching for her daughter for three years, but the family never gave up hope of finding the young woman. They posted fliers in the neighborhood and tied ribbons on trees in her honor.

Three brothers, aged 50, 52 and 54, are in custody in connection with the missing women. The police haven’t confirmed their identities, but a Cleveland bus driver named Ariel Castro was arrested. At first Police thought Amanda Berry was a runaway, until her mother got a call from a man using from Berry’s cell phone who said the teen would return in a few days and that they were now married. In 2012 a prisoner in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility told police that Berry’s body was buried in a vacant lot. The tip turned out to be false.

Charles Ramsey, a neighbor, heard Berry calling for help when her alleged captor wasn’t home and called 911. Berry told the dispatcher “Help me, I am Amanda Berry. I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for 10 years. And I’m here, I’m free now.” Another neighbor, Angel Cordero, helped break down the door and told reporters there were children inside the house. Police rescued Berry and the two other women. Police are still trying to determine how three women could have been imprisoned in a residential home for so long. Neighbors had no idea they were in the house. Ariel Castro was arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but never indicted.

Michelle Knight went missing in 2002. She is now 19. Gina DeJesus was 14 when she disappeared on April 2, 2004, while walking home from Wilbur Wright Middle School. Her mother, Nancy Ruiz, believed her daughter had been sold into human trafficking.

Dr. Gerald Maloney of MetroHeatlh Medical Center told reporters, “This isn’t the ending we usually hear to these stories, so we’re very happy. We’re very happy for them.” Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said "I am thankful that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive. We have many unanswered questions regarding this case and the investigation will be ongoing. Again, I am thankful that these three young ladies are found and alive."