Cleveland: Missing teens Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight found alive

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Devolution said:
Because fake calls tie up the line.
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Understandable, but like I said better safe than sorry you never know when a situation like today will pop up.

Reading about Dugard you posted wow, it's so sad how stuff this happens and the years go by and the person gets warped from the trauma. 2 kids by the guy and the wife is just as bat shit insane.
 
This case was aired on AMW quite a few times over the years. Usually in these cases if someone isn't recovered within the first few hours, they're most likely dead. I'm glad they're alive, but I can't imagine what they've gone through all this time. They're all facing a long road to recovery.
Devolution said:
Not to play at any sort of competition here but after this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Lee_Dugard

Nothing surprises me anymore.
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Yup.That's the first thing I thought of.
 
Hero:

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Hahahahaha, at 1:05 it's, like, straight up whoop whoop it's the sound of the police and Charlie considers running.
 
i-Lo said:
So... it is Amanda's daughter.

I don't know what to feel.
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Any way you cut, today is the best day she had in a long long time, there will be time for feels and time for outrage, but for now, I think it's fine to bask in the glory of the great Charles -

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Holy shit, I can't believe they're alive after ten years of being missing. This makes me so happy, I hope they can begin to put their lives back together.
 
speculawyer said:
Yeah, there we go . . . a great moment:
-Thumbs up from the Great Charles
-Even the skinhead is busting up laughing
-A slap of approval from the reporter
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I liked when his eyes get real big and he double takes when the siren goes off in the middle. Dat reflex

And "I was eating my McDonalds"
 
I had to share this comment
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162...dly-kidnapped-women-found-alive-in-cleveland/

What we need is discipline. In my day, the worse thing that could happen in life, was a note from your teacher. Your teacher was God, and your parents were Jesus Christ! Punishment was administrative. Had nothing to do whether you where right or wrong. YOU, had a note from your teacher. Then came Dr. Spock. Useless, stupid, and an example of people, who can afford higher education, no matter the dumbness of the applicant. Like we say out west, Harvard, Yale, etc. "How come cowboys are smarter and Bull riders are intelligent." Smart cowboys don't sit a bull. (If I had named my son Elihou, (spelling). He would go to Yale free of charge! Sorry, my intelligent brothher in-law, married my sister.Forgiveness is earned
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Wow. Insane. I can't imagine the horror they've been through. I hope they can do well with recovery/rehabilitation.
 
This is great. I grew up not too far from there. Man, 10 years is a LONG time. In today's society, after awhile its natural to just chalk people up like this as gone, unfortunately. I guess this makes you think otherwise.

On a sidenote, Charles' interview was one of the best things I've seen in awhile.
 
Just started airing this on Fox 4 in Dallas/fort worth. There was a kidnapping here that was getting more attention now they are shifting to this case.
 
jerry113 said:
So what's up with this Michelle Knight?
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She was older when she disappeared (20 years old at the time). A police spokesman said earlier that when she first disappeared, she was thought to be a runaway and not a kidnap victim. I'm sure that will be reevaluated now. The other two were very high profile kidnapping victims here in Cleveland, so there's more known about them and they're going to get the lion's share of the attention now.
 
dream said:
Hahahahaha, at 1:05 it's, like, straight up whoop whoop it's the sound of the police and Charlie considers running.
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You saw that too! Unbelievable. That entire interview was straight jokes.

As far as those monsters go, I hope they get what's coming to them and more.
 
Palmer_v1 said:
I wonder how/why she was able to get help this time, when she couldn't/didn't in all the previous years?
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No one home. Door to the basement unlocked. Combination of events that allowed her to finally get up and call for help from the outside world. Who knows. We'll get more details soon enough.
 
Whoa - here's an article from a local community paper that the KIDNAPPER himself authored back in 2004! WTF?

http://www.nhlink.net/plainpress/html/stories/2004-06/dejesusdisappearancechangesneighborhood.htm

Sorry if the link doesnt work, but this is spreading quick and I'm sure this little website is getting hammered right now. If it doesnt work :

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 other’s kids. It’s a shame that a tragedy had to happen for me to really know my neighbors. Bless their hearts, they’ve been great.”

On Cleveland ’s west side, it is difficult to go any length of time without seeing Gina’s 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, Gina’s 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 Gina’s disappearance has the whole area talking.

“It’s 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 Smith’s 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 Gina’s 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 Gina’s case really caught everyone’s 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, it’s 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 don’t 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 city’s 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.
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Wow.
 
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