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Showing Original Post only (View all)CBS: Michelle Knight needs "facial reconstruction" after Cleveland rescue, grandmother says [View all]
This is one of those articles, and it holds true of the excerpt, that you should kind of read carefully. I'm not really going to highlight anything for that reason.
Michelle Knight needs "facial reconstruction" after Cleveland rescue, grandmother says:
One of the women who spent a decade in captivity is still being treated for anxiety, but CBS Cleveland affiliate WOIO-TV reports that Michelle Knight is hospitalized for possible reconstructive surgery to heal injuries suffered at the hands of her accused attacker.
Knight's grandmother, Deborah Knight, confirmed the information, telling WOIO-TV: "When she was severely beaten, he had beat her so bad in the face, she has to have facial reconstruction, and she's lost hearing in one ear."
Records obtained by WOIO-TV show Knight also may have faced physical abuse before she was kidnapped.
Records show David Feckley was charged and convicted in the early 2000s of child endangerment, for breaking the arm of Knight's infant son. He served eight years in prison. But a rape charge was dropped when the alleged victim, Knight, couldn't be found. She went missing in 2002.
Knight wasn't seeing visitors Thursday, not even her family. On Wednesday, her mother, in from Naples, Fla., met with Knight briefly at Metro Health Medical Center. A relative said the meeting was strained, and Knight asked her mom to leave.
Knight's grandmother, Deborah Knight, confirmed the information, telling WOIO-TV: "When she was severely beaten, he had beat her so bad in the face, she has to have facial reconstruction, and she's lost hearing in one ear."
Records obtained by WOIO-TV show Knight also may have faced physical abuse before she was kidnapped.
Records show David Feckley was charged and convicted in the early 2000s of child endangerment, for breaking the arm of Knight's infant son. He served eight years in prison. But a rape charge was dropped when the alleged victim, Knight, couldn't be found. She went missing in 2002.
Knight wasn't seeing visitors Thursday, not even her family. On Wednesday, her mother, in from Naples, Fla., met with Knight briefly at Metro Health Medical Center. A relative said the meeting was strained, and Knight asked her mom to leave.
More at the link!
I wish her well and hope she recovers soon. That's going to be a long, long road.
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Poll_Blind
May 2013
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Barbara Bush on the discovery that Knight may have been physically abused before the kidnapping
AndyA
May 2013
#1
for at least 36 years, the amount of time each of those women and child spent in captivity
TeamPooka
May 2013
#41
i agree i just want him to know what the first 36 are for...then we can start the life sentence.
TeamPooka
May 2013
#63
He'll only be isolated like that if he's on death row. That's why I think prisoners
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#77
This is true. But it doesn't last forever. Only on death row. Only on death row. Which is where
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#80
I don't think he can be punished. I just want him removed from society permanently.
freshwest
May 2013
#14
you can't even put him in general population after what he's done so solitary is required
TeamPooka
May 2013
#65
There was a really old photo of her at the age when she disappeared, I think.
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#78
It was rather convenient for Feckley, and the fact that he was her mother's BF is appalling.
freshwest
May 2013
#33
The poor thing. omg the cruel in this world is hard to take. Even just hearing about it.
Whisp
May 2013
#62
I read that whole article (thanks for link!) and am...petrified at the situation. nt
Poll_Blind
May 2013
#85
This poor woman has been through so, so, much trauma and horrible events in her life.
Quantess
May 2013
#68
This is one of the most ridiculously written articles I've read in a long time
Number23
May 2013
#70
A fund has been set up to help these women: "Cleveland Courage". Go here to read about & donate
whathehell
May 2013
#83