Sunday, May 22, 2016
Michelle Knight, sings for her son's return.
Michelle Knight said she was going to dedicate this song to her Son Joey.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Michelle Knight, Cleveland Survivor Says She's 'Numb to Pain' About Tattoos
Michelle Knight continues to ink her chest and arms with elaborate tattoos. They wrap around her arms like sleeves and they tell the story of her life.
"This one is the love of music," she told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview last year, pointing to musical notes near her wrist. "I'm planning for it to go up [my arm] and it's going to have a lily. It's telling the story of my love of music and me changing my name."
Knight, now 34, changed her name to Lillian Rose Lee. Lilies are her favorite flower, she says.
Two years ago, Knight escaped from her captor, who kidnapped her near his Cleveland home and held them against their will for more than a decade. Castro chained them to walls, and raped and tortured them while he kept them hidden.
Castro was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison in 2013.
Earlier this week, Knight told about a tattoo, which includes five flowers on her left arm. "Every rose is for every abortion that I had in the house," she says.
In Knight's best-selling book, Finding Me, she writes about her multiple pregnancies and how Castro starved and punched her in the stomach until she miscarried.
For now, Knight lives on her own near Cleveland. She continues sharing her story through the tattoo art inked on her body, even if the memories are painful.
She shows off her colorful "protection dragon" that covers her entire wrist. It cost $600 and it took six hours to do. There are visible scars from the chains that once kept her captive.
"When I did this one, it was hard to get [the colored ink] on there, so I told them not to be afraid to add pressure because I'm numb to pain," she told PEOPLE. "And when it got to here, that was the only part that hurt because that's where the scars are."
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Gina DeJesus's Parents Speak Out, 'We Knew That She Was Still Alive'
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Gina DeJesus is encouraging others to never give up hope on missing loved ones.
On Wednesday, Action News Jax reported that the young woman who was held captive in a suburban house in Cleveland for nine years before her rescue traveled all the way to Jacksonville, Florida in honor of a missing boy.
Mark Degner went missing in 2005 at the age of 12 where he and his friend Bryan Hayes disappeared near Paxon Middle School.
DeJesus's parents spoke up about their daughter's disappearance where they knew they would see Gina again.
"We knew that she was still alive," Gina's mother, Nancy Ruiz, said. "We knew we had to fight. We knew we had to bring awareness. Parents don't ever give up."
"It's very hard, the not knowing of how your child's doing," Gina's father, Felix DeJesus, said. "How they're eating, how they're being taken care of. When are you going to find them? But never give up. Always have that hope."
Knowing her parents were staying strong in their search helped give Gina the hope that she would return home someday.
"Every time I'd see my parents on TV, it would give me even more hope to know one day I was going to come back home to them," Gina said.
The young woman was kidnapped by Ariel Castro where he abused her and two other women- Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry- for years before they found their freedom in 2013.
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Amanda Berry, Montel Williams apologizes for psychic’s incorrect prediction
Former talk show host Montel Williams has issued an apology to Amanda Berry for a psychic prediction on his show that turned out to be wrong.
Back in 2004, Sylvia Browne told Berry’s mother, Louwana Miller, that her missing teen daughter was dead.
Berry, her young daughter, Gina Dejesus and Michelle Knight were rescued from Ariel Castro’s home in May of 2013 after nearly a decade in captivity.
In a recent interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, Berry said she saw her mother on Williams’ show and was heartbroken over Browne’s prediction.
Miller died back in 2006 believing her missing daughter was dead.
On Wednesday, Williams posted an apology on his Facebook page.
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over a year agoBrowne told the Huffington Post back in 2013 that she was “grateful and relieved” for being mistaken about Berry’s death. Browne died a few months later.
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Friday, May 6, 2016
Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, and Michelle Knight 3 Years Later
Three years ago on May 6, 2013 the entire nation was shocked when three missing Cleveland women were found alive.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Michelle Knight Is Helping Victims of Abuse, Violence
Michelle Knight spent 11 years in captivity. She was kidnapped, raped and tortured by a man who abducted her and two other women, and imprisoned them in his Cleveland home.
On Wednesday, Knight, who now goes by the name Lillian Rose Lee, was in Baltimore in support of the thousands of Maryland women who are victims of intimate partner violence.
It was August of 2002, when 21-year-old Michelle Knight was abducted. Their abductor, Ariel Castro, physically and sexually abused the three women inside a Cleveland house of horrors.
Now, Knight has become an advocate for victims of abuse and violence
“I am looking forward to the future and trying to just live life, and be happy. Its really a struggle for me because being in a tragic situation, is difficult and we do have some memories, but we don’t have to let those memories live our life,” says Lee.
At the House of Ruth Spring Luncheon, Lilly shared her story and how she has rebuilt her life since she and the other women were rescued three years ago.
“I appreciate life so much more because so many things were taken away from me. Like air, water, food. Just living,” she says.
“The fact that she has been able to work through such severe trauma and rebuild her life with the support of so many people around her is an example for so many people in our community, who are also in the process of rebuilding their lives,” said Sandi Timmins, executive director of the House of Ruth.
Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith also spoke about responding to domestic violence calls.
Lilly says she wants victims to know that it is possible to live a happy life after the abuse.
“I ‘m not going to let that defeat me. I am going to be who I am, not what my situation was,” she says.
Lilly rose spent almost 4,000 days in captivity.
She has since written a book, and says she wants to help victims live a full life again.
More than 600 people attended the House of Ruth luncheon to hear Lilly speak.
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Sunday, May 1, 2016
Michelle Knight "Sheer torture" Michelle Knight tells of her captivity by Ariel Castro
Michelle Knight
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Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus: The FULL interview
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