Apparently they were left alone long enough for one to call 9/11. [My comment]
Missing teenagers Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus found alive after 10 years | World news | guardian.co.uk
Three women who went missing about a decade ago in Cleveland, Ohio, have been found alive in a house a few miles from where they disappeared.
Three brothers in their 50s, including one man who lived in the house, were arrested. One of the women frantically told a 911 dispatcher the person who had taken her was gone, and she pleaded for police officers to come and get her, saying, "I'm free now."
Cheering crowds gathered on the street near the home where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were found earlier in the day.
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So very, very glad of the outcome!
A short time ago I read Im No Monster, by Stefanie Marsh and Bohan Pancevski, which documented the case of Austrian Josef Fritzl.
As if the horror the three rescued girls wasn't enough, this freak, Fritzl, kidnapped his own daughter, and kept her in a dungeon for 24 years.....and had numerous children with her.