Cleveland suspect's daughter in prison for slashing baby's throat

Relatives of kidnapping victim Georgina "Gina" DeJesus hug after she returned to her parents' home in Cleveland on Wednesday, May 8. DeJesus was one of three women who were held captive in a Cleveland home for almost a decade. She escaped with Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight on Monday, May 6.

Friends and neighbors cheer as a car carrying Amanda Berry arrives at her sister's house in Cleveland on May 8.

Gina DeJesus gives a thumbs up as she arrives at her family's house in Cleveland on May 8.

Ariel Castro was charged on May 8 with kidnapping the three women.

The family house of Gina DeJesus has been decorated by well-wishers on Tuesday, May 7.

Friends and relatives gather in front of the family house of DeJesus on May 7.

Well-wishers visit the home of the sister of Amanda Berry on Monday, May 6.

Investigators remove evidence from the house on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland where the three women were held.

An FBI forensics team meets outside the house where three women were held as they investigate the property.

An FBI forensics team member removes evidence from the house.

A relative of DeJesus brings balloons to the home of Amanda Berry's sister in Cleveland on May 7.

Children hold a sign and balloons in the yard of Gina DeJesus' family home in Cleveland on May 7.

Bystanders and media gather on May 7 along Seymour Avenue in Cleveland near the house where the three women were held captive.

A bystander shows the front page of The Plain Dealer newspaper to a friend outside of the house on Seymour Avenue on May 7.

Cleveland Deputy Chief of Police Ed Tomba, center, speaks at a news conference to address details of the developments.

The house where the three women were held captive in Cleveland was the home of Ariel Castro, who was arrested and is being held pending charges in the case.

FBI agents remove evidence from the house May 7.

A police officer stands in front of the broken front door of the house on May 7, where the kidnapped women escaped.

Neighbor Charles Ramsey talks to media as people congratulate him on helping the kidnapped women escape on Monday, May 6. He helped knock down the door after he heard screaming inside.

Amanda Berry vanished a few blocks from her Cleveland home on April 21, 2003. She was 16.

Georgina "Gina" DeJesus was last seen in Cleveland on April 2, 2004, on her way home from school. She was 14 when she went missing.

Michelle Knight was last seen on August 22, 2002, when she was 21.

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(CNN) -- The daughter of Ariel Castro, the primary suspect in the abduction of three women found alive this week, is serving a 25-year sentence in an Indiana prison for the attempted murder of her baby six years ago.

Emily Castro was sentenced to 30 years with five years suspended. A judge found Castro guilty but mentally ill of cutting her 11-month-old daughter four times on the neck in April 2007.

An appeal, filed in late 2008, was denied by an Indiana court.

Legal documents state that on April 4, 2007, Castro, 19 at the time, was upset that her boyfriend -- the baby's father -- had moved out of the family's home in Fort Wayne. She took the baby into a garage and cut her neck four times with a knife.

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Castro also cut her own neck and wrists.

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Police were summoned to the house by a passerby who came upon Castro's mother carrying the baby and running from the home. Officers found Castro covered in mud, water and blood. Castro told paramedics she had tried to drown herself in a creek, according to an appeals court decision document.

The baby survived.

According to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, the defense argued at trial that Castro had suffered from mental depression and became paranoid, thinking her family was trying to kill her and the baby.

The judge found that Castro still had the ability to know right from wrong.

She and her brother Anthony spoke at her sentencing hearing, the Journal Gazette reported.

"I don't know how this happened," said Castro. "I want you to know I am a very good mom."

Anthony Castro said his sister was not an animal. The family had dealt with his sister's illness every day, he added.