( CNN ) -- In the spring of 2005 , Arlene Castro appeared on an `` America 's Most Wanted '' segment pleading for help in finding her best friend , Georgina `` Gina '' DeJesus , who 'd mysteriously gone missing along a busy Cleveland avenue one year earlier . Little did she know . At that time , DeJesus was alive but captive in an older man 's house about three miles away , authorities said . There , she was chained , threatened and sexually assaulted repeatedly . The man who police say was responsible for the girl 's hell ? Arlene Castro 's own father , Ariel . Speaking Thursday on ABC 's `` Good Morning America , '' Arlene Castro said she had `` no idea '' her father allegedly was holding DeJesus and two other young women , Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry , as well as Berry 's 6-year-old daughter , who was born in captivity . Arlene and her father -- with whom she was not living when her friend went missing , instead being with her mother -- `` were never really that close , '' she said . The last time the father and daughter talked was late last month , and their conversations were typically short and confined to niceties . `` 'Let me know if you need anything , ' and that was it , every time , '' Arlene Castro recalled . Now , she would like to talk with her longtime friend , DeJesus , to introduce her to her kids and tell her much , much more . `` I would like to say that I 'm absolutely so , so sorry , '' a tearful Arlene Castro told ABC . `` ... I 'm so sorry for everything . '' According to the FBI , the then 14-year-old DeJesus disappeared on April 2 , 2004 , as she was walking home from middle school . She was last seen at a pay telephone booth between 2:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. along Cleveland 's Lorain Avenue . And with her at that telephone booth was Arlene Castro . Castro told `` America 's Most Wanted '' -- as seen in archived video posted online , including on Slate 's website -- that her friend loaned her 50 cents , so she could use the phone and ask her mother if the two could spend the afternoon together at DeJesus ' house . Daughter : 'He is dead to me ' `` I told her I could n't and she said , 'Well OK , I 'll talk to you later . ' And she walked , '' the then-teenage Castro said , with the `` America 's Most Wanted '' reporter explaining that DeJesus would have taken the bus but had loaned out the change she 'd normally use for bus fare . Authorities have begun spelling out what they say happened to DeJesus next . Ariel Castro , Arlene 's father , lured the girl into a vehicle , then took her to his home and forced her to stay , according to charging documents . She was not alone . Two other captive women were already inside the 1,400-square foot house -- Amanda Berry , who `` America 's Most Wanted '' mentioned in its report had gone missing one year earlier , and Michelle Knight , who had last been seen in August 2002 . Today , all three women are free , including DeJesus who is now 23-years-old . Ariel Castro , meanwhile , is being held on $ 8 million bond after being charged with kidnapping and rape . As for his daughter Arlene , she 's crushed . `` I 'm really disappointed , embarrassed , mainly devastated , '' she said .
Arlene Castro said she was with Gina Castro just before she went missing in 2004 . ` ` America 's Most Wanted '' interviewed Gina Castro in 2005 story on DeJesus . Authorities believe DeJesus was held captive for years by Arlene 's father , Ariel . ` ` I ' m ... embarrassed , mainly embarrassed , '' Arlene Castro says now .