Amanda Berry, Gina deJesus & Michelle Knight - General discussion #5

[mjm076]

I've just posted a separate thread about a new Discovery + special titled The Cleveland Kidnappings, if anyone is interested!

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Fox 8 News will air a series of stories marking the 10th anniversary of the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who escaped a decade of captivity on May 6, 2013.

Berry helps find missing persons on Fox 8 and believes it’s her calling.

DeJesus has opened the Cleveland Family Center to help families of missing people.

Knight, now known as Lily Rose Lee, runs a non-profit animal rescue from her home.

The fourth person rescued that day was Amanda’s daughter, Jocelyn, who is now 16.

10 years later: Missing Cleveland teens escape Seymour Ave. home

Fox 8 News aired a series of stories marking the 10th anniversary of the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who escaped a decade of captivity on May 6, 2013.

fox8.com

 

[dotr]

I've just posted a separate thread about a new Discovery + special titled The Cleveland Kidnappings, if anyone is interested!

"The Cleveland Kidnappings" on Discovery +

In case anyone is interested, there is a new one-hour special on the Cleveland kidnapping case on Discovery + titled The Cleveland Kidnappings! It features new interviews with Gina and Michelle (Amanda did not do an interview for this special), which is more or less a repeat of stuff we have...

www.websleuths.com

 

[mjm076]

Fox 8 News will air a series of stories marking the 10th anniversary of the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who escaped a decade of captivity on May 6, 2013.

Berry helps find missing persons on Fox 8 and believes it’s her calling.

DeJesus has opened the Cleveland Family Center to help families of missing people.

Knight, now known as Lily Rose Lee, runs a non-profit animal rescue from her home.

The fourth person rescued that day was Amanda’s daughter, Jocelyn, who is now 16.

10 years later: Missing Cleveland teens escape Seymour Ave. home

Fox 8 News aired a series of stories marking the 10th anniversary of the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who escaped a decade of captivity on May 6, 2013.

fox8.com

I was going to post this but imstilla.grandma, you beat me to it!

It’s crazy to think it’s been ten years already! I remember seeing the videos of Charles Ramsey’s interview being shown as among the popular videos being watched on YouTube on their homepage back in May 2013, and then watching Michelle Knights first interview with Dr. Phil in November 2013!

I’m interested in hearing about Amanda’s relationship with her daughter! I wonder if Jocelyn has read Amanda and Gina’s book Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland yet? I had a thought this morning that as much as Amanda wrote the book to tell her story (just as Gina wrote it for the same reason) I wonder if Amanda also wrote it for her daughter as well. I know some individuals who like to pit the three of them against each other (Amanda and Gina against Michelle), saying Michelle suffered the most etc. have reviewed Amanda and Gina’s book and claimed that Amanda made it seem like her ordeal wasn’t as bad because she doesn’t go into overly graphic detail about the abuse. I wonder if the reason Amanda and Gina’s book wasn’t graphically detailed was because Amanda wanted it to be a book Jocelyn could read when she’s older and she wanted to protect Jocelyn’s feelings about her dad. In any case, we do know that there are things that Amanda and Gina didn’t write about in the book because they were too painful (they said this in an interview when their book first came out in 2015). For the record, I absolutely respect the fact that Amanda and Gina chose how detailed they wanted to be in the book and matters such as that and I found their book to be very very well-written and compelling! I would highly recommend it!

I also wonder whether Jocelyn ever asks about Lily (aka Michelle Knight)? I don’t get the impression her and Lily were close as Lily was locked in her room and by herself so much, but I could be totally wrong.

Finally, it appears that Lily’s organization called “Lily’s Ray of Hope” no longer exists. There’s no webpage for it and she hasn’t talked about it since her interview with 20/20 back in January 2020. Now it appears she runs an animal shelter instead. I hope the money donated for “Lily’s Ray of Hope” has been repurposed for this Animal shelter. I have to wonder if “Lily’s Ray of Hope” went under because of Covid.

 

[tlcya]

I was going to post this but imstilla.grandma, you beat me to it!

It’s crazy to think it’s been ten years already! I remember seeing the videos of Charles Ramsey’s interview being shown as among the popular videos being watched on YouTube on their homepage back in May 2013, and then watching Michelle Knights first interview with Dr. Phil in November 2013!

I’m interested in hearing about Amanda’s relationship with her daughter! I wonder if Jocelyn has read Amanda and Gina’s book Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland yet? I had a thought this morning that as much as Amanda wrote the book to tell her story (just as Gina wrote it for the same reason) I wonder if Amanda also wrote it for her daughter as well. I know some individuals who like to pit the three of them against each other (Amanda and Gina against Michelle), saying Michelle suffered the most etc. have reviewed Amanda and Gina’s book and claimed that Amanda made it seem like her ordeal wasn’t as bad because she doesn’t go into overly graphic detail about the abuse. I wonder if the reason Amanda and Gina’s book wasn’t graphically detailed was because Amanda wanted it to be a book Jocelyn could read when she’s older and she wanted to protect Jocelyn’s feelings about her dad. In any case, we do know that there are things that Amanda and Gina didn’t write about in the book because they were too painful (they said this in an interview when their book first came out in 2015). For the record, I absolutely respect the fact that Amanda and Gina chose how detailed they wanted to be in the book and matters such as that and I found their book to be very very well-written and compelling! I would highly recommend it!

I also wonder whether Jocelyn ever asks about Lily (aka Michelle Knight)? I don’t get the impression her and Lily were close as Lily was locked in her room and by herself so much, but I could be totally wrong.

Finally, it appears that Lily’s organization called “Lily’s Ray of Hope” no longer exists. There’s no webpage for it and she hasn’t talked about it since her interview with 20/20 back in January 2020. Now it appears she runs an animal shelter instead. I hope the money donated for “Lily’s Ray of Hope” has been repurposed for this Animal shelter. I have to wonder if “Lily’s Ray of Hope” went under because of Covid.

So hard to believe it's been a decade. I remember us all glued to that first thread, the interviews with Ramsey, the subsequent facts that came out about the girls' ordeal. It was just all so shocking. How was it possible this went on for years beneath everyone's noses? That sense of incredulity.

I will always root for these ladies and wish the best for them.

 

[mjm076]

10 years later: Meet Amanda Berry’s daughter

Just six years old when rescued, Jocelyn is now a young woman.

fox8.com

It is really touching to see the close bond Amanda has with her daughter Jocelyn! It sounds like Amanda has done a beautiful job of Jocelyn to be a loving and compassionate person!

If anyone is interested Fox 8 is airing a special broadcast commemorating the 10th Anniversary of their escape tomorrow night at 7 PM EDT and re-airing it on Wednesday, May 3rd at 7:30 PM EDT.

 

[Seattle1]

Prince William wrote to 3 victims of Ariel Castro's House of Horrors

The Prince of Wales expressed his desire to correspond with three Cleveland, Ohio kidnap victims after discovering that they had observed his wedding while in captivity.

www.dailymail.co.uk

10/31/23

• The Prince of Wales expressed his desire to correspond with three kidnap victims after discovering that they had observed his wedding while in captivity
• Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus, endured a decade of captivity under Ariel Castro, who confined them in his Cleveland, Ohio home
• Following their rescue in 2013, Berry shared how she had watched William and Kate's wedding in 2011 which had lifted her spirits during her ordeal

The Prince of Wales felt the urge to correspond with the kidnap victims after it came to light how they had watched his wedding to Kate Middleton in April 2011 and that it had 'lifted their spirits'.

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During the interview, with DeJesus at her side, Berry explained, 'It was like the biggest thing on all of the news channels, you know, and I loved watching the news to know what was going on in the world.'

'I actually set my clock and got up at 6 am. To me, that was just something that was... I don't know, it was happiness. They were getting married. And to see what her dress looked like and to see all the people there, it was just beautiful,' she added.

When asked about her thoughts on the Duchess's dress, she remarked, 'I think it could have been a little fancier. She's a princess!'

 

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