What is Gina DeJesus doing now?

 After her escape from captivity, Gina DeJesus has made great efforts to assist people who have faced a similar ordeal as she did.

Gina was reported to be last seen on April 2, 2004, when she was 14 years old at a payphone on her way home from her middle school at West 105th Street and Lorain Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Gina was friends with Ariel Castro's teenage daughter, so she assumed Castro, who she trusted, was picking her up to drop her off at home. This was not the case.

What is Gina DeJesus doing now?

In 2018, Gina launched a nonprofit, Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults, to help families whose loved ones have been abducted.

Gina states "I want to help families because my family didn't have anything. They didn't get help. My parents didn't have people actually helping them do the flyers and stuff. We could actually help other families with all of that instead of them worrying and freaking out."

Today, Gina and her family travel around the U.S. to train law enforcement agencies on how to deal with families of missing persons.

Read her book titled, Hope, here.