Castro in court over Cleveland house of horrors

ARIEL Castro has been arraigned on charges of rape and kidnapping days after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home.

Castro looked down at the floor for nearly the entire proceedings, biting his collar and signing documents with his handcuffed hands. He didn't speak. Bond was set at $US2 million ($1.96 million) on each case.

"The situation has turned," Cuyahoga County Assistant Prosecutor Brian Murphy told the court. "Castro is the captive in captivity."

Amanda Berry. Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight who were found alive after a decade in captivity, endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators say.

The 52-year-old former school bus driver has emerged as the lone suspect.

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US kidnap suspect called himself predator

FOUND inside the house where Ariel Castro allegedly held three women captive for a decade was a note from 2004 in which he called himself "a sexual predator" in need of help, local media reported.

Castro, 52, was arraigned on Thursday for the rape and kidnapping of Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23 and Michelle Knight, 32, who all emerged on Monday from the unassuming Cleveland house owned by the former school bus driver.

Local television station WOIO investigative reporter Scott Taylor, on his Twitter feed, said the note was among dozens of pieces of evidence that police recovered when they combed the two-story premises after the women's escape.

"I am a sexual predator. I need help," Taylor quoted the note as saying.

In an apparent reference to captives, the note goes on: "They are here against their will because they made a mistake of getting in a car with a total stranger."

"I don't know why I kept looking for another," the note adds. "I already have 2 in my possession."

Taylor said Castro also wrote about wanting to kill himself and giving "all the money I saved to my victims."

Knight was 20 when she was last seen in August 2002. Berry disappeared on the eve of her 17th birthday in April 2003, while DeJesus vanished in April 2004 at the age of 14.

Cleveland's deputy police chief Ed Tomba appeared to confirm the existence of the note when he was asked at a press conference Wednesday by another local TV news channel if "a suicide note" had been found.

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If he knew he was doing wrong, or was going to do wrong, why didn't he seek help before he started abducting women?  I hope they throw the book at him, I have zero compassion him.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~