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Cleveland kidnap victim Amanda Berry is enjoying her newfound freedom, having shared an emotional reunion with her dying father. She saw her dad, Johnny, for the first time in more than a decade over Father's Day weekend in Tennessee.
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Free at last.
Amanda Berry spent 10 years trapped in the lair of a monster, but when you look at her two months after her miraculous escape, nothing about her appearance betrays her pain.
New photographs have emerged of the 27-year-old Cleveland woman visiting her family in Tennessee over Father's Day after allegedly being held against her will by kidnap creep Ariel Castro.
Her father, Johnny Berry, told the National Enquirer in an exclusive interview that father and daughter had a tearful reunion over Father's Day.
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Berry visited her father, Johnny Berry, with her 6-year-old daughter Jocelyn. She also gave him a silver ring that said “DAD.”
"When Amanda came through my front door, it was like a miracle," he told the tabloid. "She started crying and ran up to me, and we hugged for the first time in 10 years. I had tears in my eyes the size of raindrops."
Berry also gave her father a silver ring with the word "DAD" engraved on it.
These photographs of Berry from June 15 are the first of the young woman since she was pictured in a Cleveland hospital next to her sister, Beth Serrano, and her 6-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, who was fathered by Castro.
Johnny Berry, who suffers from a pulmonary disease, is nearly paralyzed from his condition and said he was worried he wouldn't live to see his daughter's face again. He told the paper he was overjoyed to meet his granddaughter for the first time too.
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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held captive in the Cleveland home of Ariel Castro for a decade. They said Wednesday through their attorneys that they want the case to be over as soon as possible so they can continue to heal.
"She gave me a hug, and I instantly knew deep in my heart that she's a Berry," he said.
Amanda Berry said she will visit soon, making the eight-hour drive from Cleveland to Tennessee from her sister's house.
Castro, meanwhile, will undergo an evaluation Wednesday to determine if he is mentally competent to stand trial for his alleged crimes of kidnapping, rape, and sexual assault.
The 52-year-old former bus driver has pleaded not guilty to 329 counts against him, which include allegedly kidnapping Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight and holding them captive for a decade.
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A Cleveland police patrol car sits in front of the boarded-up home of Ariel Castro in Cleveland on May 14.
Prosecutor Tim McGinty said that he will be seeking additional charges against Castro, saying that he knew what he was doing when he allegedly kidnapped the three young women.
Michelle Knight's attorney, Kathy Joseph, said in a release Wednesday that drawing out the charges means the case itself will be drawn out. "The longer this process lasts, the more painful it is for them," she wrote.
"And the more sordid details of this horror that get disclosed in this process, the more painful it is for them."
Berry and DeJesus' attorney, James Wooly, added in an additional statement: "The simple, honest truth is they would like it to be over. They want this whole thing behind them. Any date set by which this may end is like the light at the end of a tunnel."
With News Wire services
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