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Ohio abduction: Neighbours ask why women weren't found by police earlier

As it emerges that Cleveland police went to the house twice before three women were rescued from a decade's imprisonment, neighbours ask why they weren't found earlier on. Ohio police were searching a downtown Cleveland home on Tuesday for more clues as to the apparent abduction and secret detention of three women who vanished about a decade ago. Police Chief Michael McGrath said he thinks Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held in the house since they were in their teens or early 20s. A six-year-old also was found in the home, and Cleveland police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said on Tuesday that the girl is believed to be Berry's daughter. Witness Israel Lugo said he assisted Charles Ramsey who has been credited with helping Amanda Berry escape. Ramsey said he heard screaming on Monday and saw Berry, whom he didn't recognise, at a door that would open only enough to fit a hand through. "We didn't know what was going on until Chuck (Charles Ramsay) started hollering something about there is a girl claiming to be Amanda Berry in there ... she wanted to get out, " Lugo said. "When he ripped the bottom of the door out, the baby came out and she came out and everybody just broke out." Police did go to the house twice in the past 15 years, officials said. In 2000, before the women vanished, Ariel Castro reported a fight in the street, but no arrests were made and in 2004, officers went to the home after child welfare officials alerted them that Ariel Castro, a school bus driver, apparently left a child unattended on a bus. But neighbours report they had ongoing concerns about what was happening in the Castro house. Lugo said he had called police himself in November of 2011 after his sister reported seeing a girl through upstairs window and shortly later a woman banging on the window. "The cops literally knocked on the door about twenty times, really good times, for about five - eight minutes. No answer. They walked to the side of the house. They couldn't get inside the back of the yard so they got into the squad car and left." Lugo said both his mother and some other neighbours called police after his niece reported seeing naked women in the back yard a few months later. "This could have been prevented like two years ago," he said. Elsie Cintron, who also lives on Seymour Street had warned her grandchildren to stay away from the house and its occupants. "It is just kind of strange that you see a little girl at of the attic window, looking out when he gets home from his school bus pick-up or drop-off and the little girl is up there looking out and yet when he leaves everything gets all locked up. That is the only window that gets opened in the house, the attic window," Cintron said. Police identified the three suspects as Ariel Castro, 52; Pedro Castro, 54; and Onil Castro, 50. Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like us on Facebook   / telegraph.co.uk   Follow us on Twitter   / telegraph   Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/1028913550727... Telegraph.co.uk and    / telegraphtv   are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.