. >> help me, i'm amanda berry. i've been kidnapped and been missing for 10 years. i'm here.pped at age 16, amanda berry escapes almost a decade later, rescuing herself and three others from their captor. >> you never know until you're in the situation what you're gonna do, how you're gonna react. >> reporter: she seized the moment and kicked out the door to escape. similar to the allegations against the turpin family, she'd been chained up, deprived of food but given a journal by her captor. we don't yet know what the turpin children wrote in theirs, but amanda berry wrote hopeful entries to her mother in secret code detailing the sexual abuse inflicted on her by ariel castro. >> i felt like, you know, one day she's gonna read this or maybe authorities will get to read it and he'll be punished for what he did. >> reporter: in new york city's lower east side, suzanne and her seven children suffered in captivity for more than 14 years. >> what was your reaction when you first heard about this story with the turpin family in california? >> i was like oh, no, i just felt, not an

you know, this case reminds so much of the cleveland girls, amanda berry.e girls were kidnapped by an abductor and held against their will. these kids were brought up from day one. just to know that something was wrong. she needed to do something and i know they had little knowledge of the outside world and didn't know what a police officer was so for her to be able to understand something was wrong and to break out of that situation, not only did she save her own live but the life of her 12 other siblings, as well. >> callahan, as you were talking and showing video of the family with -- out in public and we've seen them on vacation. and you know what some people feel when they see pictures like this, they're like, why didn't the children do something at that point? but please explain again why that is so difficult for them. >> right, again, we've seen this in other cases like elizabeth smart when she was abducted she was seen out in public, as well. but these abductors in this case unfortunately these kids' parents are using a control-based and fear-based