Dugard: Women need time to heal

[comment] Amanda Berry [/comment]

Kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard says the women who went missing about a decade ago and were found at a Cleveland home need a chance to heal and reconnect with the world.

In a statement released through her publicist, Ms Dugard said the human spirit is resilient, and the case reaffirms that people should never give up hope.

[comment] Gina DeJesus.[/comment]

She was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe, California, bus stop in 1991 at the age of 11 and held captive for 18 years in a backyard, where she gave birth to two children conceived by rape.

She wrote a best-selling memoir in 2011, A Stolen Life, which recounts her years in captivity.

[comment] Felix DeJesus holds a picture of Gina DeJesus in 2004. [/comment]

Police in Cleveland said the three women who vanished a decade ago were found yesterday.

Authorities later arrested three brothers, ages 50 to 54. They suspect the women were tied up and held at the house.