Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry and her six-year-old daughter fled the house in Cleveland, Ohio

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© Associated Press(L-R) Ariel Castro, Onil Castro and Pedro J. Castro
The son of kidnap suspect Ariel Castro has revealed his father placed padlocks on several rooms in their house and barred him from entering them.

Anthony said there were three no-go areas inside the home in Cleveland.

He said: "The house was always locked. There were places we could never go. There were locks on the basement. Locks on the attic. Locks on the garage."

Ariel was arrested along with brothers Pedro and Onil in connection with the kidnappings of Amanda, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight who were found on Monday night having been missing for a decade.

Before one of the women, Gina, went missing, she had been best friends with Ariel's daughter, Arlene, who was the last person to see her before she disappeared.

And his son Anthony, now a 31-year-old banker, wrote a piece for a local newspaper about the search to find her during the time that he was studying to be a journalist.

Speaking about his father, Anthony, who moved out with mum Grimilda Figueroa and his three sisters when his parents divorced in 1996, said: "He doesn't deserve to have his own life any more. He deserves to be behind bars for the rest of his life.

"I can express nothing but shame for our family that it involved any one of us. It's beyond comprehension. It's just beyond anything that anyone could really dream up. it's just a nightmare. I just feel unspeakably horrible for this."