Friday, January 03, 2020

The Cleveland Kidnapping Has A Movie In The Works!

Still standing.
The sexual predator who held Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in his Cleveland home for over a decade committed suicide in an Ohio iron college. The three women were rescued from the home after Berry broke free with her daughter and confronted a neighbor.

The women have since been showered with love and support of the Cleveland area. They still live in the community and have gave their blessings to dramatize the events of their ordeal.

So let's begin with the story of Michelle Knight. The 39-year old woman has gotten married and still trying to mend fences with her estranged son and family. Knight was the first victim of that sexual predator. She has written two books based on captivity and has been the most vocal member in the junk food media.

She has told the junk food media that she was afraid of that predator. She and the two women were often raped, tortured and forced into locked room whenever his family was around.

Knight said that he tried to impregnate her numerous times. She had miscarriages and trauma on her body. She stands at 4'9" and was often forced to clean the home whenever he was gone. She stated that he placed her and DeJesus in a room together. In one moment, he knocked her out. She woke up to missing teeth and a broken nose. She had to have reconstructive surgery to replace her nose and teeth. She has hearing lost in one ear.

"You can overcome all obstacles that stand in your way," said Knight. She legally changed her name to Lily Rose.
The predator was a former school bus driver. He held the three women in his Cleveland home for over 10 years.
The predator had children of his own. And yes, fathered the daughter of Berry.

Berry finally acknowledges the trauma that her daughter suffered. Her daughter, Jocelyn is 13 years old now. She is aware of her father being a "terrible person." Berry is trying to get her daughter adjusted to a normal life. For the first six years of her life, she was a captive in that home.

Berry was 17 when she was kidnapped. She left her job at Burger King when she was getting a ride.

The ride was that predator who often visited her at the job.

The FBI initially considered her a runaway until a week after her disappearance, when an unidentified male used her cell phone to call her mother. He said, "I have Amanda. She's fine and will be coming home in a couple of days."

Turns out to be nearly a decade. Berry's heartstruck mother plead to the community to bring her daughter home.
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus devoted their lives to finding missing and exploited children.
Fox's America's Most Wanted did extensive coverage of Berry and held vigils for her.

Phony psychic Sylvia Browne told her mother that Berry was presumed dead. It broke her mother's heart. Her mother, Louwana Miller had passed away in 2006. That would be approximately about the time Berry gave birth to Jocelyn.

Knight recalled that event. She said that Berry was going into labor and that predator told her and DeJesus to make sure that she delivered a healthy baby or face death.

A man claimed that he found a woman's body in Tremont, a neighborhood in the Cleveland's west end. The police conducted a search and turned up nothing. He was charged with making a false report and sent to the iron college for nearly 5 years.
The first official pictures of Amanda Berry and her daughter at Hersheyland in Pennsylvania.
Berry is 34-years old and lives in Cleveland with her daughter and sister.

The final victim was DeJesus. The 30-year old woman was the youngest victim kidnapped by that predator. Her disappearance was something of noting. Black men and women go missing without media coverage. Black journalists were getting worked up over missing white women getting more coverage.

Some believed that she was a victim of that sexual predator who killed women in Cleveland. That predator has killed women who were "working girls" and homeless. He had no remorse for his actions. He knew Cleveland Police were inept. After all they allowed Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell to die in a hail fire of bullets. They shot Tamir Rice seconds after they exited their police cruiser. They have profiled Black men traveling through neighborhoods they called on social media, "the jungle." The predator knew how to work his way around women.

The predator who kidnapped these three women knew the routine as well.

The predator's own daughter knew DeJesus. The two often played in the neighborhood.
Michelle Knight would marry in 2018.
No issued an AMBER alert and nothing happened for two weeks. DeJesus father was angry over the ineptness of the Cleveland Police.

There was a witness who described the predator as 5'10" Latino man who was about nearly 200 lbs.

The predator was 5'7" about nearly 200 lbs and sported the very same features.

The predator couldn't impregnate DeJesus so he would beat her and force her to feed Knight and Berry (with her child).

The predator tired to cover his tracks. He built a large fence, kept his lawn clear of items related to women. He would buy them food from the store. He would lock them inside their rooms and make sure the windows were closed from the inside. He often tried to see if they could squeeze through the locks and try to escape. If they escape, he would chase them in the yard and drag them back inside.

One day, Berry would make contact with neighbors. She saw that there was a broken panel in the home. She would find a way to escape that enclosure and run over to Angel Cordero and Charles Ramsey's homes.

Cordero couldn't speak English but he did know Ramsey. So they ran to Ramsey and of course, the neighbor was shocked to see a little white woman running across the street with a child. He thought that was one weirdest things to see in the community.

Berry would make the 9-1-1 call and triggered a major law enforcement presence. The Cleveland Police, the Cuyahoga County Boys and FBI came in tow. They rescued the women.
Hailed as a local hero, Charles Ramsey calls the three women the real heroes.
They initially arrested the predator and his brothers. The brothers were cleared of the acts and turned on the predator. The brothers said that they would hear noises in the home, but the predator dismissed it as rats.

The predator's daughter believed Jocelyn was the daughter of a former girlfriend. She was seen with the predator often times and did call him daddy and knew his family.

Upon capture, the predator admitted that he had held the women against their will. He said he "loved" them and wanted the best for them. He felt that the neighbors got it wrong about him.

He said that he had sexual fetishes and couldn't contain them.

At trial, the predator pled guilty to kidnapping, aggravated murder, attempted murder, assault and rape. He was spared the DEATH card but was handed a LIFE with no graduation plus a 1,000 added years.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden greets Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus at the White House.
He was forced to give up his possessions. His home was seized by the federal government and demolished. He was told to have no contact with any victims, his family and couldn't profit off the story. He said that the Cleveland Police and FBI were idiots because they allowed him to get away with it for so long. He said that he couldn't imagine being in the iron college. He knew that interns hate predators.

After pleading guilty, the predator was sent to the iron college outside of Columbus. The community  rallied to help the women get back to a normal life. Then governor John Kasich honored them, they got their honorary degrees from local schools and universities. They have meet celebrities and obtained a hefty sum of victim's assistance.

Berry and DeJesus continue to keep contact with one another. The two have meet Barack Obama and other members of Washington. They devoted their lives to finding the missing and exploited. They wrote a book about the experience.

Knight has no longer spoke to them and continues to be a public speaker and activist.
The home of that predator was demolished.
Months after being held in the iron college, the predator committed suicide. A handful of guards and their supervisor were fired out the cannon after failing to check on high profile interns.

The memories of May 6, 2013 still linger. There's still many unanswered questions. Especially for the fact that the Cleveland Police failed to notice the obvious. They allowed sexual predators to linger in their community and didn't care whether they lived or died.

These young women have a long road ahead. Thankfully, there's no bumps in that road.

There's a sign a movie is in the works. The last movie that came out was the 2015 Lifetime movie that dramatized the experience.





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