Facts: - title: three women captive in ariel castro 's home - type: kidnapping , rape , - victims: michelle knight amanda berry gina dejesus - caption: berry , dejesus and knight prior to their abductions - location: 2207 , 44113-5108 , u.s. seymour avenue , tremont , cleveland , ohio - perp: ariel castro - coordinates: 41 , title region : us-oh_type : event 2207 seymour avenue 28 , cleveland , ohio 21 n 81 41 52.5 w inline - image: cleveland kidnapping victims.jpg - date: august 23 , 2002 may 6 , 2013 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ariel castro kidnappings .
A:
between 2002 and 2004 , three young women , michelle knight , amanda berry , and georgina '' gina '' dejesus , were kidnapped by ariel castro -lrb- july 10 , 1960september 3 , 2013 -rrb- in his home in the tremont neighborhood of cleveland , ohio .they were subsequently imprisoned in his house on seymour avenue until may 6 , 2013 , when berry escaped with her six-year-old daughter and contacted the police .knight and dejesus were rescued by responding officers and castro was arrested within hours .on may 8 , 2013 , castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape .castro pled guilty to 937 criminal counts of rape , kidnapping , and aggravated murder as part of a plea bargain .he was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole plus 1,000 years .one month into his sentence , castro committed suicide by hanging himself with bedsheets in his prison cell .