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The front porch of Amanda Berry's home is decorated with balloons and signs on today ahead of her homecoming.
Amanda Berry is home.
The Cleveland kidnapping victim walked into her sister's house this morning, to cheers of a hundred neighbors and well-wishers.
The porch of sister Beth Serrano's house was decorated with flowers, stuffed animals, balloons and a banner: "Welcome Home Amanda!"
A caravan of police and FBI agents escorted Berry to Serrano's home.
Berry had told cops she wanted to make public statement, but changed her mind once she got inside Serrano's house.
"I am so happy to have Amanda and her daughter home," a teary-eyed Serrano told reporters and neighbors outside her house.
"At this time, our family would request privacy so my sister, my niece and I can have time to recover. We appreciate all you have done for us the past 10 years."
Serrano's West 129th Street house is the Berry home in Cleveland.
Sadly, Berry's mom passed away during her captivity. Her dad now lives Eastern Tennessee and is recovering from surgery, so he couldn't immediately make it back to Cleveland for the joyous reunion.
Berry, now 27, was snatched a day before her 17th birthday in 2003 and now has a 6-year-old baby daughter, Jocelyn.
One of the law enforcement officers carried Berry's daughter into the house, as they all entered through a back door.
It's presumed one of Berry's sadistic captors is the biological father of that little girl, who had been raised in captivity until Monday afternoon.
That's when Jocelyn's courageous mom decided to bolt - and fortunately found neighbor Charles Ramsey, who helped break open her door to freedom.
Cleveland police Cmdr. Thomas McCartney recalled cops digging up a city lot a year ago, looking for bodies of the missing women.
"Yes, I was somewhat disappointed [bodies were not found]," McCartney said.
"But I was also relieved because it kept hope alive. And I said some day Amanda will come home and somebody is going to be there to give her a big hug. That day is today."
Berry, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, 23, were treated as sex slaves — kept chained and taped in separate rooms, sources told the local ABC affiliate.
The women were starved, repeatedly raped and kept imprisoned in a dilapidated, white-clapboard home with chains mounted to the ceiling before finally escaping.
Berry wrapped up her shift at Burger King on April 21, 2003 — the eve of her 17th birthday — and called her sister to tell her she'd catch a ride home.
She never showed up.
"I didn't know where to go from there," her mother, Louwana Miller, told Fox News in 2005, a year before her death.
Berry had been a student in the gifted program at John Marshall HS until she left for online homeschooling.
She liked reading and shopping and talked about becoming a clothing designer.
A few days after Berry disappeared, Miller got a call from her cellphone.
"It's this guy and he's telling me that Amanda is with him," Miller said in 2005. "She's all right and he wants her to be his wife."
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Amanda Berry, right, hugs her sister Beth Serrano Monday.
The desperate mother begged the creep to let her talk to Berry.
"I'll have her home in a few days," he lied, and hung up.
A few minutes later, the man called again.
"He said Mandy was going to be his wife," Miller said. "He wanted to marry her. Mandy wanted to be with him."
"And he hung up, and that's the last I've heard of that."
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Amanda Berry before her abduction.
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