Two newly freed Cleveland women had family homecomings yesterday after a decade of captivity in a house where police said chains and ropes had been used to hold them prisoner.

Neither Amanda Berry nor Gina DeJesus spoke publicly as they were hustled past crowds of spectators and media.

Berry, 27, and her six-year-old daughter, who was conceived and born in captivity, could be seen from an aerial television camera arriving in a convoy of vehicles at her sister’s house and going in through the back door. DeJesus, 23, was rushed into the home she had not seen in nine years, clenched in a tight embrace by her sister Mayra.

DeJesus hid her face in a yellow hoodie but raised her hand in a thumbs-up sign to the crowd that was chanting “Gina, Gina”.

“There are not enough words to say or express the joy that we feel for the return of our family member Gina, and now Amanda Berry, her daughter and Michelle Knight who is our family also,” DeJesus’s aunt Sandra Ruiz said outside the house.

“I want to say thank you, but I’m also going to put my foot down as the mean one of the family,” she said. “We are asking for your support to be patient with us. Give us time and privacy to heal.

“When we’re ready, I promise every single one of you guys that we’ll talk to you.”

Police released some details about the search of the house where the women had been held, including the discovery of chains and ropes police said had been used to tie up the victims.

No human remains had been found, they added.

Brothers Ariel Castro, 52, Pedro Castro, 54, and Onil Castro, 50, were expected to be charged by the end of the day.