Ariel Castro.

"I am not a monster," is such a monster thing to say.

According to court documents filed in Cleveland on Wednesday, the three young women abducted and tortured by Ariel Castro kept a diary detailing their years of captivity.

This past Saturday, kidnapping survivor Amanda Berry—last seen in a grateful YouTube video with fellow victims Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight—appeared onstage an all-day Cleveland concert, where she joined headliner Nelly for his triple-platinum hit, "Just a Dream."

It’s been one week since Cleveland dishwasher Charles Ramsey was at home eating a Big Mac when he heard a woman's scream and immediately began a viral transformation from unsuspecting neighbor to true-crime hero to backlash target to trend-story subject to bemused celebrity. And seven days later, his face is now permanently inked on the back of some dude's leg.

A police report obtained by WKYC details the horrifying ordeal of the Cleveland kidnapping victims, which included beatings, brutal forced abortions, starvation, and death threats.

As police sift through the ramshackle Cleveland home where three women who'd been missing for almost a decade were recovered yesterday afternoon, neighbors of the three brothers arrested for the kidnappings are coming forward with terrifying tales of brutality that went overlooked by police for years.