I am not only surprised at, but am amazingly proud of how Michelle has blossomed since leaving captivity. Most of us thought she would be the most "damaged" and the least likely to have a public profile. But she has already proven to be a powerful voice for the missing and abused, and an inspirational advocate for healing through faith. I think she has a truly bright future and will use her life to impact millions of people. Perhaps because she had it the hardest in that house, she has the most to live for out in the real world.
I am not only surprised at, but am amazingly proud of how Michelle has blossomed since leaving captivity. Most of us thought she would be the most "damaged" and the least likely to have a public profile. But she has already proven to be a powerful voice for the missing and abused, and an inspirational advocate for healing through faith. I think she has a truly bright future and will use her life to impact millions of people. Perhaps because she had it the hardest in that house, she has the most to live for out in the real world.
Yeah---- I guessed they wouldn't take it...for one thing consider the source of the $.. .....The girls were offered the 22,000 that was found in ariel castro's washing machine, and they said no, give it to the neighborhood where they were found.
CLEVELAND A house used to hold three young Cleveland women captive for a decade was destroyed Wednesday.
By tearing down Ariel Castros home, its one less reminder of the pain and abuse that went on for so long.
Removing it will also clear a spot for a positive asset in the community, such as a garden.
How the land will be used will be determined by the survivors and neighbors in time.
Michelle Knight, one of the survivors, returned to the neighborhood to pass out yellow balloons.
http://fox8.com/2013/08/07/castros-home-to-be-destroyed-wednesday/
Sorry, your second link doesn't work so I'm not sure what you're suggesting about Amanda Berry. The eyebrow piercing is on the first link you provided, though.
I won't go into the blow-by-blow of how they were held captive other than to ask if you watched the hearing last week (they went into detail regarding the setup of the house).
Questions: if you think the story is fake, what was the incentive? And I have to ask again: are you suggesting the girls were able to give consent as young teenagers?
Houndstooth, I am not even sure what you are asking, and have you read credible sources or watched the hearing? Are you trying to say this is a conspiracy?
This was a very sick thing that preyed on very young women. Apparently, you didn't see the 90+ feet of chain he used to lock the girls up. (This pretty much suggests to me, there wasn't a lot of freedom of the house). If you can't tell from the chains, how about the locks on the doors or alarms on the doors. Quite often their mouths were duct taped if he left. Also, he had tricked them before by leaving doors unlocked as a test, if they opened them he wad beat them. After this happening once or twice, most people would be afraid to even try.
Also my daughter pierced her navel 15 years ago, and friends of hers had pierced their eyebrows, so it wasn't such an oddity.
The only troubling thing about this story I found, was that he wasn't arrested for essentially doing the same thing to his wife. Perhaps if they would have treated him like the sleazy thing he was, he would never had taken these women
Eyebrow piercing?
I have a lot of questions, that's all.
For a home to be demolished and condemned, it's usually been in the works for some time. I wondered about staging this incident in a house scheduled for demo.
In the original story I read, she suddenly decides to call for help after a decade or more for some of them? And when her rescuer arrives he has merely to knock out the bottom of a screen door to release her? That's weird.
I don't see how anyone who lived nearby could miss there were more than one person living there when they had free range of the house quite a bit.
Or how he managed to bring in food and clothing for these women and the child?
How the brothers were dismissed out of hand early on when an investigation had scarcely been underway? Or how they might have missed the extras living there?
For women to give birth at home or suffer miscarriages, with nary a peep is strange.
I found the photos to have been tampered with in or by the media.
Then there was the mixup with Amanda Berry and another girl missing in Wisconsin and Amanda was the one the investigators thought the body found was of. After a year, I am not sure if they ever positively id as someone else. I have to wonder that the other girl Kayla's family did not ever notice that Amanda Berry's picture was used for years on the missing website. Just really weird.
http://amandaberry.net/
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/ ... 94931.html
Then there is the quick recovery from such a traumatic ordeal. Certainly explanable if this is a media hype story as more than a few are.
You have to understand their role in being legally able to invent the news.
Does it seem plausible and likely that three women could be held captive by a screen door?
Then lastly there's this oddity. A movie screenplay that was based on a true story and finally released earlier this year, although it was filmed a few years ago. However, other than this story, I am not familiar with another case of three women kept captive in a basement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Factory_(film)
It's just a strange kidnap story, if it is all true.
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Then lastly there's this oddity. A movie screenplay that was based on a true story and finally released earlier this year, although it was filmed a few years ago. However, other than this story, I am not familiar with another case of three women kept captive in a basement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Factory_(film)
It's just a strange kidnap story, if it is all true.
Eyebrow piercing?
I have a lot of questions, that's all.
For a home to be demolished and condemned, it's usually been in the works for some time. I wondered about staging this incident in a house scheduled for demo.
In the original story I read, she suddenly decides to call for help after a decade or more for some of them? And when her rescuer arrives he has merely to knock out the bottom of a screen door to release her? That's weird.
I don't see how anyone who lived nearby could miss there were more than one person living there when they had free range of the house quite a bit.
Or how he managed to bring in food and clothing for these women and the child?
How the brothers were dismissed out of hand early on when an investigation had scarcely been underway? Or how they might have missed the extras living there?
For women to give birth at home or suffer miscarriages, with nary a peep is strange.
I found the photos to have been tampered with in or by the media.
Then there was the mixup with Amanda Berry and another girl missing in Wisconsin and Amanda was the one the investigators thought the body found was of. After a year, I am not sure if they ever positively id as someone else. I have to wonder that the other girl Kayla's family did not ever notice that Amanda Berry's picture was used for years on the missing website. Just really weird.
http://amandaberry.net/
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/ ... 94931.html
Then there is the quick recovery from such a traumatic ordeal. Certainly explanable if this is a media hype story as more than a few are.
You have to understand their role in being legally able to invent the news.
Does it seem plausible and likely that three women could be held captive by a screen door?
Then lastly there's this oddity. A movie screenplay that was based on a true story and finally released earlier this year, although it was filmed a few years ago. However, other than this story, I am not familiar with another case of three women kept captive in a basement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Factory_(film)
It's just a strange kidnap story, if it is all true.