Missing teens Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus found alive (Cleveland)
Source: Newsnet5
CLEVELAND - Missing Cleveland teenagers Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus have been found, police say.
Cleveland police dispatch told NewsChannel5 that officers at the scene of 2210 Seymour Avenue said Berry and DeJesus are there. The families of both are at MetroHealth Medical Center waiting for the women to arrive.
I heard screaming
And I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside, said Charles, a neighbor would found the women. I go on the porch and she said Help me get out. Ive been here a long time. I figure it was domestic violence dispute.
She comes out with a little girl and says Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry
When she told me, it didnt register.
Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/Cleveland-police-dispatch-Missing-teens-Amanda-Berry-and-Gina-DeJesus-found-alive
Berry, DeJesus found alive, police source confirms
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/tv_station_reports_berry_dejes.html
This is late breaking news here in Cleveland on all local channels. These girls were abducted 10+ years ago.
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)They're covering it non-stop. I hope this provides an opportunity to bust open a human-trafficking ring.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)babylonsister
(170,963 posts)I had never heard of this story; thank you for sharing.
10 years ago?!
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Their families tried to find them all along and they would be on the news on birthdays and some holidays. This is amazing!
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Beacool
(30,244 posts)I don't remember the stories of their disappearances, but that they were found alive 10 years later is great news. Blessings to both of them.
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Beacool
(30,244 posts)That's your prerogative, but don't crap on other people's beliefs.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)That was pretty fucking rude.
No need to be an asshole now is there?
Keep that shit up and you will see the Banhammer.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Be sure to watch the video in the first link. Charles saved those girls. Charles is awesome.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)When he did the bit about a little white girl must be in big trouble if she ran to a black man it was so perfect. If you read the comments underneath the article all the locals were thanking Almighty God for saving the women. No mention of Charles. One poster acknowledged Charles saved them... even though he didn't "look" like a hero. What a bunch of rubes!
Paulie
(8,462 posts)A hero and a real mensch.
ellisonz
(27,709 posts)Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)Real heroes rarely do.
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)[img][/img]
Meet the Man Who Rescued Three Women Missing for a Decade in Cleveland
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/05/meet-man-who-rescued-three-women-missing-decade-cleveland/64945/
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azmom
(5,208 posts)here is a link to his 911 call. Charles is a hoot
http://media.cleveland.com/pdextra/audio/amanda-berry-911-call-2.mp3
Walk away
(9,494 posts)The police are looking pretty bad about this whole thing.
Charles? He should have his own cable show! I love him!
corkhead
(6,119 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I hope they recover and overcome their scars.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)That is from the newstory. This is from a blog where they were assumed dead in 2009:
http://mydeathspace.com/vb/showthread.php?14452-Amanda-Berry-Georgina-DeJesus-Ashley-Summers-missing-from-same-neighborhood
This is great news for their folks and friends. I hope they get all the help they need to recover.
chillfactor
(7,566 posts)I hope after ten years the girls can recover! Bless them!
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)Is about all I can say.
Thank God! Their families must be thrilled.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)How awful!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)bigworld
(1,807 posts)Just Saying
(1,799 posts)I'm not sure about 3rd girl, but the place on Seymour isn't that close. Same side of town but they disappeared around W 110th and Lorain and found near W 34th and Clark (a bit SOuth and east
of Lorain Rd I think)
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Response to OhioChick (Original post)
bigworld This message was self-deleted by its author.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)The rescuer said, I knew something was wrong when a pretty little white girl ran into a black man's arms. I said, there's something wrong here.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)Last edited Mon May 6, 2013, 09:55 PM - Edit history (1)
them. And something about a 9 year old, too. They were all in a really bad condition, apparently.
What a great escape story, but one dreads to think what horrors have they been through.
On edit: I was on my phone and didn't see who posted the OP. Great to see you! How's it going?
Archae
(46,262 posts)Sylvia Browne is the "psychic" (who has a batting average of zero, BTW,) who told Shawn Hornbeck's parents he was lying dead in a woods.
Hornbeck was alive and being held captive by a pervert.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/01/psychic-told-parents-that-son-was-dead.html
Well, Browne said to Amanda Berry's relatives that they would find Amanda Perry's body near water.
Whoops!
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)It was in a book by some journalist who said that off cameral and out of the limelight that she is just awful and a horrible fake.
She's made a lot of money.
Bryn
(3,621 posts)I saw her on Montel show long while back when she said it. Oooops!
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Gina DeJesus disappearance has changed her neighborhood
by Ariel Castro
(Plain Press, June 2004) Since April 2, 2004 , the day 14-year-old Gina DeJesus was last seen on her way home from Wilbur Wright Middle School , neighborhood residents have been taken by an overwhelming need for caution. Parents are more strictly enforcing curfews, encouraging their children to walk in groups, or driving them to and from school when they had previously walked alone.
You can tell the difference, DeJesus mother, Nancy Ruiz said. People are watching out for each others kids. Its a shame that a tragedy had to happen for me to really know my neighbors. Bless their hearts, theyve been great.
On Cleveland s west side, it is difficult to go any length of time without seeing Ginas picture on telephone poles, in windows, or on cars along the busy streets.
People are really looking out for my daughter, Ruiz said.
For seven weeks, Ginas family has been organizing searches, holding prayer vigils, posting fliers and calling press conferences. Despite the many tips and rumors that have been circulating in the neighborhood, there has been no sign of her.
One thing is for certain, however. Almost everyone feels a connection with the family, and Ginas disappearance has the whole area talking.
Its traumatized a lot of people, Bob Zak, Safety Coordinator of the Westown Community Development Corporation, said. People are suspicious of everyone. Kids, parents, and grandparents are afraid.
The organization serves Cleveland s Ward 19, which stretches from West Boulevard to West 134th Street .
Parents and relatives waiting for their children as school let out at Wilbur Wright recently expressed concern about the number of sex offenders living and working in the area.
I really believe there needs to be more security, Vaneetha Smith said as she waited for her niece outside Wilbur Wright Middle School at the end of the day. We have too many kidnappings, and they should crack down on all the sex offenders in the area.
Luis Perez echoed Smiths concerns as he waited for his niece at the school.
I think the neighborhood is pretty bad, he said. You have to be aware of some people out there.
The Ohio Electronic Sex Offender Registration and Notification (eSORN) database lists 133 sex offenders living or working in Ginas immediate zip code. Many residents of the area, however, cannot use the database, as they do not have access to the Internet at home.
I have been here almost four years and I have been notified of only one sex offender, Ruiz said. And he lives only about 1,000 feet away from here.
Ohio law prohibits sex offenders who are required to register from establishing their residence within 1,000 feet of school buildings.
There is no enforcing the laws because they still live right next to the schools and the bus stops, Ruiz said. She believes the process of registering sex offenders is essentially a waste of time.
At a Ward 19 crime watch meeting, one of ten monthly, residents describe the area as a multi-ethnic community where people work and try to keep their housing up to par. They feel the disappearance of Amanda Berry on April 21, 2003 was a wake-up call, but Ginas case really caught everyones attention.
Many residents believe the schools and the city have more work to do to help out.
There is not enough supervision at the schools and when the kids get out, they still run through the streets, Smith said. They say that once they leave the school premises, the school is not responsible for them. But until they reach their house, I believe they are. They should be more concerned with their safety.
The school is supposed to be a safe place, Perez said. They need more police around the schools, surrounding the area. Without that, its just going to keep on going and there will be more innocent people getting hurt.
Isaac Rodriguez has seen some changes happen at Wilbur Wright.
There are more security guards at the school now, the father of two middle school students said. They have been having assemblies and talking to the kids about the danger.
When you send your kids out to school now, Smith said, you dont know if they are going to make it home or not. From West 105th to [West 110th], anything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.
Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the citys cuts in the police force.
The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens, he said. Although police cannot be on the scene of every crime as they occur, Zak reports that residents are getting responses to calls one, two, and four hours later.
Cuts in the police force are not the only budget changes that are directly affecting residents. The Cleveland Municipal School District is also mulling how it will eliminate its projected $100 million budget deficit. Among the items cut will be purchased services, employee overtime, supplemental pay, textbooks, school staff and student transportation.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Over at Reddit, they have posted his Facebook page...and he is friends with Ms De Jesus's brother.
Creepy bastard.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Suspect was a bus driver. He wasn't into writing articles.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Reports are that two uncles have been arrested in addition to the author's father.
Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)That's some sick shit
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Sara Shookman?@SaraShookman
No. Ariel is Anthony's first name as well. Goes by Anthony. @brianstelter: @SaraShookman so his son wrote it, but it was published under...
Josh MarshallVerified account?@joshtpm3m
@SaraShookman You've confirmed that the son of the suspect is the author of the 2004 article?
Sara Shookman?@SaraShookman1h
I'm talking to Anthony Castro right now, the son of Ariel Castro. While a BGSU student, he wrote this in 2004. pic.twitter.com/4z8Zx4c73u
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)ages 54, 52 and 50.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/who-were-the-three-women-set-free-from-captivity-in-cleveland/story-fnd134gw-1226636654710
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Unbelievable that this has a happy ending . . . so glad this turned out OK, except Amanda's mom died in 2006 of heart failure.
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)Poor lady...so sad.
http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2013/02/amanda_berrys_mother_louwana_m.html
She begged the media for more coverage, and we let her down.
She called me, angry, the day she saw the TV news offer a reward for a missing dog.
What about my Mandy? she bellowed. She called when CNN covered the woman missing in Aruba.
How come she gets so much publicity? she cried.
frogmarch
(12,145 posts)of John Walsh's mouth on CNN (Anderson Cooper show). Walsh said he hoped that the older girl who was taken wasnt an accomplice, that after the kidnapper took her, she didn't later help him take the other girls. OMG, wtf.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)What the fuck would a relative or friend of Knight have thought? She's been missing for over a decade, they have the unbelievable joy of hearing she's alive, and the shithead is wondering if she's a kidnapper? How the fuck could anyone shit all over a story with literal victim blaming like that? Let alone someone who's broadcast on the subject for years?
NancyDL
(140 posts)...the police probably never looked for the older woman because she was 21 when she went missing. They barely looked for the others. It was the families that kept the girls on people's minds.
SunSeeker
(51,376 posts)SunSeeker
(51,376 posts)There is absolutely no evidence of that and it is so hurtful to the girl and her family.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)And Charles! What an angel!
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)by that guy and his wife in NorCal as a sex slave for years, had a couple of daughters, and was eventually rescued. I forget her name.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)recovered in rural Contra Costa county.
Her recovery seemed like a fluke, but with these women having a similar story...
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Do we know how many people were inside ? Only Amanda seems to have a child.
SunSeeker
(51,376 posts)He said privacy laws kept him from revealing their ages. Well, we know 3 are the women, so the 4th patient must be the young child Amanda Berry had with her.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Well, add murder charges to the long list of horrific crimes this man (and I use that term loosely) will be tried for.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)http://fox8.com/2013/05/07/women-may-have-been-pregnant-multiple-times/
Or it was his wife
Figueroa suffered two broken noses, broken ribs, a knocked-out tooth, a blood clot on the brain and two dislocated shoulders, according to a 2005 filing in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court. Her attorney requested that a judge keep (Castro) from threatening to kill (Figueroa).
Attorney Robert Ferreri said Figueroa has full custody with no visitation for (Castro). Nevertheless, (Castro) frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from mother.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/ariel_castro_suspect_in_clevel.html
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)I'm very pleased both for the girls and their families.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)What assistance did he receive from the McVeigh gun show types online to continue to hold them?
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Both girls spent their money on other things, one paid for a phone call, the other liked to walk and buy food instead of taking the bus.
Brian Cummins, a councilman who represents the area where the women were found, identified the suspect in whose home the women were found as Ariel Castro. His uncle, Julian Castro, told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that his family had grown up in the same west Cleveland neighborhood and knew the DeJesus family.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/06/us/ohio-missing-women-found/index.html
ChromeFoundry
(3,270 posts)...how this guy was able to be employed as a school bus driver for all these years?
A bus full of children, with this guy at the helm, seems to be a greater threat than the flames you are attempting to fan.
I understand your vendetta against guns... but there are much greater evils in this world than guns. Banning guns does not cure a sick mind.
I remember how disturbing this news was when they went missing so many years ago.
For years, one could not enter a store or drive down any main road without seeing the posted "Missing" signs.
I wish the best for these kids and their families as they begin to heal from this tragedy.
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)this question. Sexual predators rarely use guns BTW.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Last edited Tue May 7, 2013, 12:11 PM - Edit history (1)
But, you're the expert.
Guns are the 'tool' of choice for nutcases and the NRAKlan 2.0, alike.
(I am told that a gungeoneer has popped up to defend serial killers and child rapists by not correctly reading my post. Figures. Ignore makes DU better.)
hack89
(39,171 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Smart_kidnapping
hack89
(39,171 posts)there are no accounts of him using a gun. The only thing they found in his house was a 6mm Brevettata starter pistol which cannot fire bullets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)but didn't they find three women? Why are all the stories about only two?
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)azmom
(5,208 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)One of the women held in the house apparently knew Castro. A local Cleveland news station is reporting that Castro was related to Gina DeJesus' best friend, and might have been the friend's father. DeJesus went missing when she was 14 years old. She was walking home from school.
Castro attended at least two vigils for the missing girls.
He's active on Facebook. This page has been identified as belonging to Castro. It seems pretty normal at first glance he posts about his grandchildren and other family members.
A woman who appears to be Castro's daughter is serving a 25-year prison sentence. Emily Castro was convicted in 2008 of attempted murder for slashing her 11-month-old daughter's throat. She was 20 at the time of her conviction, and her brother said she's mentally ill. Her daughter has since made a full recovery.
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-we-know-about-ariel-castro-2013-5
VA_Jill
(9,854 posts)At first it seems like another Jaycee Lee Dugard story, but I'm guessing there's more to it. Jaycee's captor kept her for himself, but the fact that there were three women in the house in this case speaks more to human trafficking. Or maybe Castro just thought his brothers should have someone too? In any case, I hope he never sees the light of day again!