Amanda Berry’s Daughter Born During Ariel Castro Kidnapping is 13 Years Old Now

A family photo of Amanda Berry with her daughter, Jocelyn, who is now 13 years old.

Berry tried to make her life as normal as possible while being held captive and how Jocelyn is doing now.

Jocelyn’s Mother Amanda Was Just 16 When She Was Kidnapped. On April 21, 2003, just one day away from turning 17, Amanda Berry disappeared after working her shift at a local fast-food restaurant. She was initially considered a runaway, but a week after her disappearance, Berry’s mother received a call from Berry’s cell phone where an unidentified man said, “I have Amanda. She’s fine and will be coming home in a couple of days,” the FBI told the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

She was raped, starved, fed one meal a day. At the time the women were found, Reuters reported that Knight told police she suffered at least five miscarriages over the 10+ years of captivity, saying she was starved for weeks and beaten in the stomach by Castro in order to induce them.

The women were found when Berry managed to escape with the help of a neighbor who heard her screaming. Knight was 20 years old when she was kidnapped in 2002 and DeJesus was 14 when she was kidnapped in 2004.

Amanda’s daughter Jocelyn Was Born in 2006. On Christmas Day 2006, Amanda gave birth to Jocelyn in an inflatable kiddie swimming pool. Knight told authorities she assisted in the birth; Castro had said he would kill her if the baby didn’t survive. At one point, the baby wasn’t breathing, but Knight said she was able to resuscitate her, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

During the birth, Berry told 20/20/i> that Knight was just trying to calm her down. Knight said she cried “so much” because she wasn’t a medical expert and was scared of what would happen. But Berry said when she looked at her daughter for the first time, it was just “amazing.”

“It was amazing ’cause she was so quiet and she was just the most beautiful thing … this is his kid. How do I feel about that? She resembled him a lot and I would look at her and I just felt likeAfter Jocelyn was born, Castro, whom she called “daddy,” occasionally took the little girl to visit his mother, Lillian Rodriguez, whom she called “grandmother.” He also showed Jocelyn’s picture to his adult daughters and told them she was his daughter with his ex-girlfriend, according to USA Today. A DNA test eventually confirmed that Castro was Jocelyn’s father., ‘She’s mine. She’s mine,'” Berry said.