Ariel Castro's convict daughter ripped her father in an interview Wednesday, saying she believed the accused Cleveland kidnapper and rapist used her as bait to get closer to his victims.

“He’s a monster," Emily Castro told private investigator Chris Giannini for Cleveland's FOX 8. "And then actually seeing the guy that hugged us, and smiled with us, and took us to eat, and cared about us supposedly, is the guy who’s in handcuffs.

“I didn’t know he was ever capable of ever doing what he was doing. As far as that goes, I woul