DNA tests show Castro fathered hostage's child

CLEVELAND, May 10 (UPI) -- DNA results confirm Ariel Castro is the father of the child born to Amanda Berry while she was being held hostage in his home, Ohio authorities said Friday.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said preliminary tests confirmed Castro's paternity, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

DeWine said state lab technicians had worked through the night to produce the results.

Castro's DNA also was compared to samples from other crime scenes around the state, but no matches were found,

Castro is accused of kidnapping, raping and beating three women and holding them captive for a decade.

One of his Castro's adult daughters, Angie Gregg, says her father "is dead to me."

"There will be no visits; there will be no phone calls," she told CNN in an interview Thursday. "He can never be 'daddy' again. I have no sympathy for the man."

"I wonder this whole time, how he could be so good to us, but he took young women, little girls, someone else's babies, away from these families and over the years never felt enough guilt to just give up and let them free," Gregg said.

Castro, a 52-year-old former bus driver, allegedly enticed the women off the street with offers of a ride home, authorities said.

He was held in jail Friday on $8 million bail under a suicide watch after being charged with rape and kidnapping for allegedly abducting Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Authorities say Castro repeatedly raped the three women during their years-long ordeal.

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DNA tests show Castro fathered hostage's child