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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus & Michele Knight Recovered From Tremont Home, Multiple People Arrested
Carl Harp, CBS Cleveland
May 6, 2013 7:23 PM
UPDATE 10:47pm: Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins joined Anthony Lima on “The Ken Carman Show” and discussed the finding of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, including where he was when the news broke and the families of the missing girls.
Brian CumminsTalks Amanda Berry
UPDATE 10:21pm: One of the persons arrested has been identified as 52-year-old Ariel Castro,
a Cleveland City Schools bus driver. He is the owner of the home and
was arrested for domestic violence in 1992. A grand jury declined to
indict him. He has lived in the house since 1992.UPDATE 10:06pm: Fox 8 News reports live on-air that Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath says two or three people arrested regarding Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight.
UPDATE 9:57pm: Police are not present at the news conference. However, a medical official is commenting on the story, but is unable to comment on their medical condition and specific details. The doctor says, “We are assessing their needs.”
UPDATE: 9:46pm: We are still awaiting the news conference to begin.
We can tell you that a neighbor to the house, Charles Ramsey, said he heard a girl screaming Monday afternoon.
As he approached the door he heard her say, “My name is Amanda Berry, please help me out of this house.”
WOIO’s Ed Gallek talked to the Ken Carman show:
Ed Gallek Talks Amanda Berry
UPDATE: 9:03pm: A news conference will be held at 9:30pm at MetroHealth Medical Center. Stay tuned for more information.UPDATE 8:29pm: The Cleveland Division of Police confirmed the recovery of the three girls and say they are in good health. They have a 52-year-old Hispanic male under arrest regarding the incident.
UPDATE 8:25pm: The City of Cleveland has addressed the developing story on their Facebook page.
A post reads:
Statement from Mayor Jackson: “I am thankful that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight have been found alive. We have many unanswered questions regarding this case and the investigation will be ongoing. Again, I am thankful that these three young ladies are found and alive.” Note: Public Safety will hold a press conference tomorrow morning to provide an update.
UPDATE: 7:50pm: Cleveland police say that Berry, DeJesus and 32-year-old Michelle Knight are alive and appear to be okay. There will be a media briefing Tuesday morning.
UPDATE 7:37pm: FOX 8 reports that police have confirmed Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and a third woman named Michele Knight have been found.
ORIGINAL STORY:
CLEVELAND – Multiple news sources report that a woman claiming to be Amanda Berry called Cleveland Police on Monday afternoon.
Berry was kidnapped ten years ago and reportedly told at the 911 dispatcher that Gina DeJesus is with her, along with a third woman with a baby.
WKYC reports that women were seen running from a home located at 2210 Seymour Avenue near West 25th Street. Hundreds of people have gathered around the home.
Berry has not been seen since the day before her 17th birthday in 2003. She had called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at Burger King on West 110th Street and Lorain Avenue.
DeJesus went missing on April 2, 2004 when she was just 14-years-old. She was walking home from Wilbur Wright Middle School.
A 52-year-old man has been arrested by police according to WOIO.
Stay tuned as more details develop.
For Amanda Berry and other Cleveland victims, recovery begins with patience
Amanda Berry and the two other victims of the Cleveland kidnappings are now reemerging into a different world from the one they left 10 years ago – and as different people. Experts' advice: Go slowly.
Amanda
Berry (r.) hugs her sister, Beth Serrano, after being reunited in a
Cleveland hospital Monday. Berry and two other women were found in a
house near downtown Cleveland Monday after being missing for about a
decade.
WOIO-TV/AP
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For women who have had little control of their own lives for years, the transition back into a normal life can be overwhelming, and the struggle to regain a sense of control often begins with the need to tell their own story in their own time and on their own terms. The seeds of recovery, experts add, often bloom only with time and no small amount of love.
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Systematic abuse at the hands of a stranger, particularly when it takes place during a long period of confinement, can create in victims intense feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness. Recovery can often be affected by how victims deal with these raw emotions.
“Being held and traumatized for a long time, you often develop questions like, ‘Why me?’ or ‘Will this ever end?’ and will try to determine the meaning of the trauma,” says Megan Berthold, a clinical social worker at the National Association of Social Workers, who has worked with refugee survivors of torture. “Often you don’t know if you will survive, so being able to make some sense out of it, and developing strategies to cope, to be resilient in the process, can make a huge difference on whether one survives the ordeal, and in shaping their response afterward.”
Elizabeth Smart, the Salt Lake City girl freed in 2003 after nine months in captivity, says tormentors use sexual violence to devalue the victim’s individual worth, making them feel they have to remain under their captor’s protection. Speaking at a human trafficking forum at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore last week, Ms. Smart said her captor reduced her to feeling like “a chewed up piece of gum.
For Amanda Berry and other Cleveland victims, recovery begins with patience
Amanda Berry and the two other victims of the Cleveland kidnappings are now reemerging into a different world from the one they left 10 years ago – and as different people. Experts' advice: Go slowly.
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“Nobody re-chews a piece of gum, you throw it away. And that’s how easy it is to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have value. Why would it even be worth screaming out? … Your life still has no value,” said Smart, who is now an advocate for victims of sexual violence.
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When victims are raped and conceive children, “the child may serve as a possible reminder of the perpetrator, trigger memories of him, and of those experiences,” says Ms. Berthold.
Yet children can also help victims cope, she adds. “The child may have bonded in a very positive way with the mother in giving them her a sense of purpose to stay alive.”
The fact that the women were so young when they were kidnapped – Ms. DeJesus at age 14, Berry at 16, and Michelle Knight at 20 – also means they will return as adults to lives they were taken from as children. These will be new lives that the women might not recognize. “This kind of upheaval may be hardest to cope with,” says Victor Vieth, director of the National Child Protection Training Center in St. Paul, Minn. “You become a person frozen in time. How do you get that time back?”
Berry’s mother died in 2006 after three years looking for her daughter. “She literally died of a broken heart,” family friend Dona Brady told the Associated Press.
During this process, reuniting with former loved ones can become traumatic if family members or friends push too hard to learn the details about the victim’s experience while in captivity. Recovery can take years, and victims need time to feel that they control their own story, which is a first step to feeling empowerment over their own lives, says Katie Hanna, executive director of the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence in Cleveland.
“It gives them some of that power back when so much power was taken away from them,” Ms. Hanna says.
Often, victims of sexual violence feel most comfortable talking to other victims.
“It is often difficult for survivors to talk about what happened because of the social stigma of what happened. Individual therapy can help, but sometimes connecting with other survivors can be very validating for them,” Hanna says.
Ms. Dugard told ABC News in March 2012 that a breakthrough in her recovery was realizing she had the power to make decisions on her own, after almost two decades of conceding that authority to her captors.
“Just being free to do what I want to do, when I want to do it,” she said. “That's the whole learning process to, to know that you can.”
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