Kermit Gosnell: The Philly Doc Killing Babies! [NSFW]

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor who is facing murder charges.

Warning: This commentary contains disturbing images. Take extreme discretion when reading this. 

I've avoided this controversy for the longest. I didn't care about it.

I wasn't interested in it. I felt this was another attempt by the conservative agitators to single out Black Americans and single women who decide to make a choice.

Let's first get this honest opinion out the way. I can testify to being considered pro-life (or commonly known as anti-choice). I am not in favor of abortions. I don't believe killing a fetus. However, I don't endorse the tactics of those who are anti-choice.

To make this clear: I don't support abortions but I don't decide on how a woman makes a choice. I don't want to push my beliefs upon a woman's choice to have one. When a woman makes a choice, it actually affects them. Seriously, it does. Once they have this, they go through a depression stage and eventual regret.

This isn't an easy decision. It's really difficult and you can't change what is done!

I can relate to being a person who witnessed an abortion. I dated a "married" woman last year. This woman was having an affair while her husband was spending time in the iron college.

She gotten pregnant and we both freaked out. She decided that she would want this. I disagreed and felt that the impact could be devastating for her, me and her husband. The decision to have the choice was squarely hers and not mine.

To go to the local clinic in a nearby suburb was very awkward to say at least. Abortion providers have provided armed security for the doctors, workers and patients. The moment we entered the building we were searched for weapons. We were told to show our identification, fill out a waiver to determine legal status and were expected risks if anything should happen upon this decision.

The office where Gosnell operated.

The protesters came within an hour and were standing across the street with offensive signs and chants of religious extremism. They've harassed women and men who walked near that facility.

She had it. To this day, if not a rarely, we don't talk about it. It's a "painful" memory to say at least.

To this day, I've been more distant from the rest of the world. I've came to the conclusion it's a dog eat dog world. I've came to conclusion that I can't win! So I don't make no bones about staying off the social networks, keep limited associations with friends and family, and not be so giving!

I know I'm a caring and giving person. That's considered my weakness. But this and many other things that occur gives me a pause. It made me more reclusive and distant. It made me throw my hands up and say that's it: I don't care no more about people.

Why should I?

I mean how many of your friends look out for you in a time of need?

The decision was difficult. It made me more of a human. I made me realize that reality is.....well you know!

So I continue forth with a stronger mind and a better life. I have hopes of settling down with an eventual wife or girlfriend someday.

To this day, any abortion provider is in fear of a White extremist's assassination attempt. About four years ago, Dr. George Tiller of Kansas was one of the nation's only late term providers. He and two others provide late term for women who pregnancies were in danger. Tiller was gunned down by a White extremists while attending church service. Due to the constant agitation from Loserville and their host Bill O'Reilly (aka Bill-O), the abortion provider was killed in cold blood in front of his family. The shooter Scott Roeder was inspired by White extremists Lila Rose and Terry Randell. The man watched Loserville's propaganda campaign against late term abortion providers.

Gosnell and two nurses (wife and his daughter) were arrested.

Bill-O denied his rhetoric motivated extremism. Since then, he's toned down slightly on his rhetoric and did express remorse for the death of Tiller. But you don't hear much about Bill-O in the news. We're more focused on Fox News (aka Loserville), Sean Hannity (aka The Guy Who Helped Obama Win), Matt Drudge (aka The Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall), Glenn Beck (aka Chalk E Becker) and Rush Limbaugh (aka King Hippo).

These conservative agitators have inspired extremists rhetoric from those who have issues with race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, education, political and economic standings. They've created a poisonous environment not only in the junk food media, but also in Washington, DC.

The whistleblower.

These individuals have created liberal retaliation (i.e. Huffington Post, Raw Story, TPM, Daily Kos, MSNBC, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Stephanie Miller, Alan Colmes, and Al Sharpton).

These conservative agitators have made it more difficult for Republicans to reach out to groups they've gravely lost in the previous election.

The conservative agitators blame the junk food media for a "blackout" of this story.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia based abortion provider who is facing some serious charges.

The doctor practiced in an abortion clinic that was considered a horror according to clients and former workers.

The doctor was charged with capital murder in regards to his reckless handling of born children.

Republicans and their conservative allies criticized the rest of the junk food media for "lacking the courage" to expose such a horrible man.

Gosnell on his part singled out Loserville for the numerous death threats and reputation being dragged through the mud.

Gosnell is on trial for first and third degree murder, illegal prescribing of drugs, conspiracy related to corruption, and illegal abortions and related medical malpractice offenses, at his abortion practice.

Gosnell was arrested in January 2011 and charged—along with other crimes and various co-defendant employees—with eight counts of murder resulting from gross medical malpractice in treatment of patients at his clinics. The murder charges related to a patient who died while under his care and seven newborns said to have been killed after being born alive during attempted abortions. Through his lawyer, Gosnell denied the allegations.

The DEA and FBI photos of dead fetus in trash bags.

The charges of murder were recommended by a grand jury against Gosnell and several employees.

CNN reported in March 2011 that prosecutors were considering seeking the death penalty.

Before the trial opened, all defendants apart from Gosnell and one other had already pled guilty to similar charges (including for some, charges of third degree murder); several had testified to "snipping" the spines of babies. One of these, Steven Massof, testified that he had personally done this over a hundred times, describing it as a "standard procedure" at the clinics.

The trial of Gosnell and the last remaining defendant began on March 18, 2013.

In February 2010 under a search warrant by investigators from the FBI and state police, Gosnell's office was raided. The raid was the result of a months-long investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Philadelphia Police Department, and the State's Dangerous Drug-Offender Unit into suspected illegal drug prescription use at the practice. The investigation had also revealed the suspicious death of patient Karnamaya Mongar in 2009, which had in turn brought to light further information about unsanitary operations, use of untrained staff, and use of powerful drugs without proper medical supervision and control.

This was a fetus with its head decapitated.

Gosnell was arrested on January 19, 2011, five days after the certification of the Grand Jury's report. He was charged with eight counts of murder.

Prosecutors allege that he killed seven babies born alive by severing their spinal cords with scissors, and that he was also responsible for the death in 2009 of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee from Bhutan, who died in his care. Gosnell's wife, Pearl, and eight other suspects were also arrested in connection with the case.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Office of the Inspector General also sought a 23-count indictment charging Gosnell and seven members of his former staff with drug conspiracy, relating to the practice's illegally prescribing highly-addictive painkillers and sedatives outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose.


The third degree murder charge relates to Karnamaya Mongar; according to prosecutors, Gosnell's staff gave the 90-pound woman a lethal dose of anesthesia and painkillers. Gosnell's lawyer asserts that Karnamaya Mongar also had other drugs in her system that did not come from Gosnell's clinic, and that none of the infants were born alive.

The claim was rejected by the Grand Jury, based upon expert testimony that "it was the overdose of Demerol, not some mystery pill, that killed Mrs. Mongar."

The seven other murder charges are all of first degree murder; they relate to babies, whom staff have testified they saw move or cry after complete birth, and whose deaths are alleged to have resulted from subsequent lethal action.

They arise because of the "born alive rule", a principle of common law which stipulates that by default, for legal purposes, personhood arises – and therefore unlawful killing constituting murder becomes possible – immediately upon the victim's being born alive (several US states as well as Federal legislation have more specific laws to protect fetuses and newborn babies, see fetal rights and born alive laws in the United States). Steven Massof, a clinic employee who pleaded guilty to similar charges in 2011, testified that he (Massof) had snipped the spines of more than 100 babies after they had been born alive, and that this was considered "standard procedure" at the clinic; a number of other employees had also testified to the same point.

Leaked images of the dead fetuses and unhealthy work conditions at Gosnell's clinic.

No physical evidence exists for five of the seven cases — charges are based on staff testimony and denied by Gosnell. A photograph exists of the sixth, who allegedly had a gestational age of 30 weeks, and the physical remains were obtained of the seventh.

The Grand Jury report states that "A medical expert with 43 years of experience in performing abortions was appalled. This expert told us, 'I've never heard of it [cutting the spinal cord] being done during an abortion'."

Some in the junk food media are wondering why they didn't cover this?

The Huffington Post reports that the judge tossed three of eight murder charges Tuesday in the high-profile trial of Gosnell. Some of the the babies were born alive at a clinic they dubbed "a house of horrors."

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, still faces the death penalty if convicted on four remaining counts of first-degree murder involving babies he's accused of killing with scissors after they were born alive.

The graphic pictures of aborted fetuses.

Judge Jeffrey Minehart did not explain why he dismissed the three murder counts but apparently felt he had not heard sufficient evidence from prosecutors that those three babies were viable, born alive and then killed. Much of the evidence during the five-week prosecution case has come from the recollections of former staff members, though their testimony was bolstered by graphic photographs of some of the aborted babies.

Prosecutors argued that the babies were viable and that Gosnell and his staff cut the backs of their necks to kill them.

"Why would you cut a baby in the back of the neck unless you were killing it?" Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron asked.

The defense questioned testimony from staffers who said they had seen babies move, cry or breathe. Defense lawyer Jack McMahon argued that each testified to seeing only one movement or breath.

"These are not the movements of a live child," McMahon said. "There is not one piece – not one – of objective, scientific evidence that anyone was born alive."

The judge also upheld murder charges in a patient's overdose death. Gosnell is charged with third-degree murder in the 2009 death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, a recent refugee to the U.S. who died after an abortion at hiss Women's Medical Society.

McMahon argued that third-degree requires malice, or "conscious disregard" for her life.

"She wasn't treated any differently than any of the other thousands of other people who went through there," McMahon argued Tuesday, in a preview of his likely closing arguments.

Prosecutors might concede that point themselves at closings, and argue that patients were routinely exposed to unsanitary, intentionally reckless conditions at the clinic. Former staffers have testified that patients received heavy sedatives and painkillers from untrained workers while Gosnell was offsite, and were then left in waiting rooms for hours, often unattended, before Gosnell arrived for the late-night surgeries.

Despite that, the workers testified that they had never seen a woman go into distress before Mongar. Yet a 2011 grand jury report alleges that dozens of women were injured at Gosnell's clinic over the past 30 years. Some left with torn wombs or bowels, some with venereal disease contracted through the reuse of non-sterilized equipment, and some left with fetal remains still inside them, the report alleged. And the report blamed Gosnell for an earlier maternal death that was not charged.

Cameron, in defending the Mongar charge, said it stemmed from the circumstances at Gosnell's clinic. They included the repeated medication dosages given by medical assistants; the doctor's absence during most of her two-day visit; and the hour it took to open a locked side door and take her by stretcher to an ambulance.

Graphic.

The defense motions to dismiss the various counts Tuesday offered a preview of closing arguments, which could come within the next week, especially if Gosnell chooses not to testify. A gag order prevents lawyers from disclosing their strategy.

A string of character witnesses testified Tuesday afternoon for Gosnell's co-defendant, Eileen O'Neill. She is charged with three counts of theft for practicing medicine without a license. Minehart dismissed six additional counts of that charge Tuesday.

Eight other former co-workers, including Gosnell's wife, Pearl, have pleaded guilty to charges ranging from third-degree murder to racketeering to performing illegal, late-term abortions.

Minehart upheld charges that Gosnell violated Pennsylvania's abortion laws by performing abortions after 24 weeks and failing to counsel women 24 hours before the procedure.

Gosnell had also been charged with five counts of abuse of a corpse, for removing the feet from aborted fetuses and storing them in specimen jars. McMahon argued that his client did so to keep DNA samples, and Minehart agreed to dismiss those counts.

Many conservatives believe the junk food media is shielding the president, popular entertainers, and those who support progressive causes.

Yeah, I missed it. I didn't have the stomach to cover it. But still, we here at Journal de la Reyna seek justice for the many victims (i.e. mothers) who were abused by this reckless doctor. He gave the extremists in the anti-choice movement more ammunition to make the case against safe and legal providers.

It could inspire many more "right of god" extremists. These individuals are driven with a bible verse and a firearm. These people are now motivated to target others who may eventually be caught doing the type of horrors that landed Gosnell in the situation he's facing.


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Controversial agitator Chalk E. Becker makes his commentary about Gosnell.

Lauryn Hill Bitching About 3 Months In The Iron College!

The official mugshot of entertainer Lauryn Hill. The 37-year old singer will be spending time in the iron college for not paying her taxes. She goes into an epic rant about how the United States Justice System screws over Black people.

She's lucky!

The former Fugee singer could have gotten at least 10 years in the federal joint for deliberately not paying her taxes. The singer will go to the federal joint for a three month stay and a few years of probation.

Lauryn Hill appears as an artist on Sony Music Entertainment.

The entertainer is one of many Black celebrities in the news for blowing money fast. She joins the ranks of Lil' Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Young Buck, Wesley Snipes, R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige and Swizz Beatz as entertainers who have a longstanding issue with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The singer may have to fork over Grammy's, her platinum plaques, her home, car and her trademarks as collateral.

Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress. Early in her career, she established her reputation as an actress in the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and then as the front woman of the hip-hop group Fugees. In 1998, she launched her solo career with the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album sold over eight million copies and earned five Grammy Awards for Hill, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.

To date, she has won a total of eight Grammys.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in Newark, N.J. federal court also sentenced the famed rapper and actress to three months of home confinement with electronic monitoring after the prison term. Hill must also serve a year of supervised release and pay a $60,000 fine in addition to paying her tax debt to the IRS.

Hill is a 37-year-old South Orange, N.J. resident who won fame as a member of the Fugees and then launched a solo career that included the Grammy-winning The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill . She pleaded guilty last year in the tax case.

In a courtroom statement to Arleo, Hill said she had always intended to pay the overdue taxes eventually, but found herself unable to raise the money during a period when she had dropped out of the music business.

Hill had faced a maximum sentence of one year each on three counts. Her lawyer, Nathan Hochman, had argued for probation.

Hochman said Hill had paid more than $970,000 to satisfy her tax liabilities.

Last month, Hill used Tumblr to address media reports that stated she'd reached new label deal with Sony Worldwide Entertainment to release music that would help her pay the tax debts. Hill confirmed a deal with Sony but said the reported nature of the deal and dollar amounts involved were inaccurate.

Prosecution records filed in the tax case by the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman showed that Hill owned and operated four private corporations in addition to her entertainment career. Royalties from the recording and film industries were Hill's primary form of income, the prosecution document charged.

Hill received more than $1.8 million in income during 2005, 2006 and 2007 but didn't file tax returns during that time. Although her guilty plea specifically related to that three-year period, Fishman said her sentence also took into account additional income and tax losses for 2008 and 2009, when she similarly failed to file tax returns. The sentence also addressed overdue New Jersey state taxes.

In all, federal prosecutors said Hill had earned approximately $2.3 million during the five years and had an unpaid tax total of $1,006,517 before more recent payments.

Hill is tentatively scheduled to begin her prison term July 8. It was not immediately clear where she would serve the sentence.

Hill took to Tumblr to express her outrage about her sentencing.

It has been reported that I signed a new record deal, and that I did this to pay taxes. Yes, I have recently entered into an agreement with Sony Worldwide Entertainment, to launch a new label, on which my new music will be released. And yes, I am working on new music.

I’ve remained silent, after an extensive healing process. This has been a 10+ year battle, for a long time played out behind closed doors, but now in front of the public eye. This is an old conflict between art and commerce… free minds, and minds that are perhaps overly tethered to structure. This is about inequity, and the resulting disenfranchisement caused by it. I’ve been fighting for existential and economic freedom, which means the freedom to create and live without someone threatening, controlling, and/or manipulating the art and the artist, by tying the purse strings.

It took years for me to get out of the ‘parasitic’ dynamic of my youth, and into a deal that better reflects my true contribution as an artist, and (purportedly) gives me the control necessary to create a paradigm suitable for my needs. I have been working towards this for a long time, not just because of my current legal situation, but because I am an artist, I love to create, and I need the proper platform to do so.

The nature of my new business venture, as well as the dollar amount reported, was inaccurate, only a portion of the overall deal. Keep in mind, my past recordings have sold over 50,000,000 units worldwide, earning the label a tremendous amount of money (a fraction of which actually came to me).

Only a completely complicated set of traps, manipulations, and inequitable business arrangements could put someone who has accomplished the things that I have, financially in need of anything. I am one artist who finds value in openly discussing the dynamics within this industry that force artists to compromise or distort themselves and what they do, rather than allowing them to make the music that people need. There are volumes that could (and will) be said.

Limbaugh: Cleveland Kidnappers Are Obama Voters!

He's still bitching and probably hurting the AM dial by his choice words. 

Okay, we know know that Cumulus Radio Networks and Dial Global are expressing frustration with him.

Many national advertising companies refuse to sponsor such a controversial figure.

Yet again proving that he's not going away, King Hippo manages to throw cold water on a very monumental event in Cleveland, Ohio. The controversial agitator manages to "joke" about the kidnappers of three missing women being supporters of President Barack Obama and embracing welfare.

Today on his show, he along with the rest of the junk food media are pondering the five rules of yellow journalism. The junk food media is trying to piece together to how Ariel Castro and his brothers O'Nil and Pedro managed to hide Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in plain sight!

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held captive in a Cleveland home. They were found after 10 years of family fears they were dead.

King Hippo running his mouth made the ridiculous comparison to the kidnappers. Yeah, he and I both watched the CBS action series Hawaii Five-0. Ironic this episode was on around the time these women were found.

King Hippo: "But as it so happens, I happened last night to watch Hawaii Five-0 on CBS. Hawaii Five-O‘s premise last night was kidnapped girls held until they were 18 and then let go or killed — well, always killed — by a couple doing it for the welfare benefits."

“Now I don’t know what happened in Cleveland, but I couldn't help but make the connection. I mean, if everybody else in the low-information crowd is going to use what happens on TV for reality, why can’t I?”

“Three brothers, but not related the the three women, have been arrested in Cleveland — which voted Obama. Not that that’s got anything to do with anything!” 

Again, we are witnessing the eventual demise of talk radio. The crown jewel of AM radio is getting older and more crankier. King Hippo is hurting talk radio literally.

Not only liberal agitators suffer from a lack of audience but fresh young conservative agitators are struggling to move into a market as well.

Since the Republicans failed to defeat the president, they're now trying to hurt the legacy. The president was handed major defeats since he was sworn in this year. The Democrats fear the Senate majority is at risk of being in Republican control. Everything the president done since he's been in office has been challenged by the greedy White extremist and their friends the Republican Party. It's not fair but it's politics.

This awful comparison made by King Hippo is crude to say at least. Whether he's joking or not, it's inappropriate for him to do that.

If Lil' Wayne can get pulled from Mountain Dew for a crude rap verse, how come the conservative agitator continues to spit a crude verse without a beat?

Mr. Sanford Goes Back To Washington!

Who said I'm disgraced? - Mark Sanford, representative-elect of South Carolina. He managed to beat Democratic challenger Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.

The Republicans can blow a sigh of relief.

The 1st Congressional District in South Carolina is going to be a Republican hold.

Former governor Mark Sanford can be called Congressman yet again. The controversial politico managed to beat the Democratic challenger Elizabeth Colbert-Busch in a nail biting race where the Republican National Committee put limited action in it. Sanford rejuvenated his campaign after he made his awkward apology to the constituents. He also mocked Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic congresswoman from California.

Sanford played upon the fears of a Democratic majority and the economic turmoils.

A chance at completing political redemption proved to be fruitful for the politico.

Sanford was best remembered as the governor who took a hike down to see his mistress.

Sanford will return back to the seat he once held back in the late 1990s. He gave up his seat to run for governor. The current governor of South Carolina, Republican Nikki Haley ordered a special election for the seat after she nominated Black Republican Tim Scott to become the U.S. Senator. Scott replaced Jim DeMint as the senator of the state. He signals he'll run for a full term.

Even though he didn't get help from his former staffers and ex-wife Jenny, Sanford can rest easy tonight knowing that the people of South Carolina are forgiving him for his past sins.

And even though Republican influence was limited to this race, the conservatives came out for the Midterm election whereas the liberals stayed at home

Colbert-Busch is the sister of entertainer Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central.

The Democrats thought they could pull an upset in a seat that is considered politically impossible.

The 1st Congressional District is 18+ more Republican according to the Cook Report.

Elizabeth Colbert-Busch fought a hard race against a formidable and yet controversial politico. 

Sanford, who served as governor of the Palmetto State from 2003 to 2011, defeated businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert Busch. Sanford had said Tuesday that if he did not win, he would not run for office again, the Associated Press reported.

Of course, the Representative-Elect will be signaled as potentially corrupt by the Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington.

So Republicans, you're newest member is a former. Welcome to the fold Mark Sanford. Hope your problems will become the Republicans problems.

Details Emerge About Missing Women In Cleveland!

Found. Amanda Berry busted out of kidnapper's home and call the police. The woman along with two others were found in a Cleveland home. The FBI and Cleveland Police are investigating three men who held these women captive for over a decade.

The FBI and Cleveland Police are investigating three individuals involved in a kidnapping of long forgotten teenage girls who became captives.

The junk food media finally pays attention to the abduction of two teens who were missing for over a decade. The media had long forgotten about Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus for the Aruba incident.

Nonstop wall-to-wall coverage of Natalee Holloway and the suspect Joran Van der Sloot kept the media busy. It helped ambulance chasers Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren, Rita Cosby and Geraldo Rivera in the spotlight. They were investing their time worrying about this story more than a two young girls missing in Cleveland.

Today the news of the bold actions Amanda Berry (and her daughter) are being the talk of the nation. Berry along with the two other women were freed from captivity by a good samaritan.

Charles Ramsey on the act of cautious fear helped Berry, DeJesus and Michelle Knight escape from their horrible ordeal. Over 10 years of being missing, the young women were hid in plain sight.

Ohio governor John Kasich, President Barack Obama and Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson were informed about this during the night.

There will be a press conference to detail what happen. 52-year-old Ariel Castro and two of his brothers are being held in Cuyahoga County lock-up in regards to their involvement. Castro appears to be a former school bus driver.

Ariel Castro, the kidnapper.

This type of incident will assure they'll face federal charges. The FBI will interview the woman and get the information necessary to put those horrible individuals in the iron college for life.

It's a rarity that missing children are found alive especially after years of being missing.

The most famous missing women were Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugrad. Smart was kidnapped from her home and found at least nine months later. Smart went on to become a victim's rights advocate and a married woman. Dugard was kidnapped for over 10 years and had children with her captor.

Initially, thoughts of death were in the minds of the family. But hope wasn't lost.

The Plain Dealer reports, Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told a dispatcher that she was alive and free after being kidnapped 10 years ago and held captive in a house on Seymour Avenue.

"We've confirmed it's them," a Cleveland detective said. "They are alive and safe." Police have scheduled a news conference for 9 a.m. today.

Berry, now 27, DeJesus, 23, and Knight, 30, were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center. The FBI and police will interview the women, the detective said.

DeJesus, missing for nine years, and Knight, missing for 11 years, were with her.

Police arrested three brothers, ages 50, 52 and 54. Police did not release names.

But neighbors said one of them is the owner of the house, Ariel Castro, 52, a Cleveland school bus driver until last November who had lived in the two-story house since 1992. Records show he was arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but a grand jury declined to indict him.

Police were searching the house and yard Monday night and into this morning.

Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found alive in a Cleveland home. Rarely missing children are found alive after being missing for years. They were held captive in a home located near downtown Cleveland.

Berry was the first to get out of the house, escaping through a broken door. A child came out behind her. Police then came and rescued the other two women, who were taken to the hospital. It wasn't immediately known who the child was.

Dr. Gerald Maloney, emergency room doctor at MetroHealth, said in a news conference Monday night that the three women were in fair condition.

"They are able to speak, they are safe, and hospital staff are assessing their needs and evaluating if they will spend the night," he said. "This is good. This is not the ending we usually see from these stories."

Knight, who was 19 at the time of her disappearance, was last seen at a cousin's house near West 106th Street and Lorain Avenue on Aug. 23, 2002.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson released a statement Monday expressing gratitude that the three women were found alive.

"We have many unanswered questions regarding this case, and the investigation will be ongoing," Jackson wrote.

Outside of MetroHealth, a large crowd awaited word on the women's condition.

Berry's cousin, Tasheena Mitchell, 26, who was 16 years old when Berry disappeared, said her brother had called to tell her the news that Berry is alive. But she said she received it skeptically, having had her hopes dashed by false reports in the past.

"She was my best friend," Mitchell said.

A friend interrupted her, "She's alive. She is your best friend."

"You're right," Mitchell continued. "She is my best friend. I'm so nervous. I'm so excited. They won't let me inside. But I will stay here all night if I have to."

Drivers passing the hospital and the neighborhood honked their car horns in support, while police protected the rescued women's relatives from a crush of TV news cameras and reporters.

Many in the crowd hugged and cried.

"They don't find people who go missing, you know," said Kayla Rogers, 23, who waited at the hospital for news of her friend. She attended Almira Elementary and Wilbur Wright Middle School with DeJesus. "I'm at a loss for words."

Rogers said she only attended one vigil over the years because it was too painful.

The home of the kidnapper. Seymour Avenue was quiet until Monday.

As the crowd grew outside of Castro's house, details about the mysterious resident circulated.

Jannette Gomez, 50, who often visits family and friends on the street, said Castro would park his motorcycle and red pickup truck behind the house, lock the gate and enter the house through a back door.

Occasionally, he would turn on a dim porch light, but the house was always dark, Gomez said. Shades blocked the windows, and at least one window was boarded up.

Gomez said he never had much to say, she said. He would say 'Hi' back, but there was never much conversation.

Castro's uncle, Julio Castro, who owns a store called Caribe at the corner of West 25th Street and Seymour, said he had mixed emotions about the discovery.

"For me, it's bad on one side and good on the other side."

Julio Castro said his nephew used to play bass in various bands that performed at a local club once owned by DeJesus' uncle. He said he believes his nephew knew the family from the club and the neighborhood.

Charlie Czorba, a Caribe customer who lives on Seymour, said he was stunned by how long the women had lived at the house undetected.

"This is our own backyard," he said. "These girls were locked up in our own backyard."

Another neighbor, Victor Pratts, who has lived on the street for about 25 years, said Ariel Castro would occasionally come out and ride a four-wheeler with him. But Pratts said he never saw any of the three women enter or exit the house.

Aurora Marti, 75, who lives across the street from Castro, said she was sitting on her neighbor's front porch talking Monday evening when an arm reached out of the front door at Castro's house.

"She was waving her arm and saying, 'Help me! Help me!' " Marti recalled through her daughter, who translated from her mother's Spanish.

The captive woman identified herself as Amanda Berry and said she was kidnapped 10 years ago.

Neighbor Charles Ramsey said he also heard a girl screaming, "Help, help me out." He said the girl looked familiar. He said he called 9-1-1.

Ramsey said Castro took off running while Ramsey kicked and broke the bottom of a door, allowing Berry to crawl out.

Police arrested Castro at a nearby McDonald's restaurant and brought the other two women out of the house, witnesses said.

Ramsey said he knew Castro, had even eaten ribs with him -- and had no idea the women or the child was in the house.

A relieved hero, Charles Ramsey gives a color interview about his role in saving kidnapped women.

"We never thought that man would do anything to anybody," Pratts said. "He was a bus driver."

Mike Iwais, a longtime resident in the neighborhood, lives in a house just a parking lot away -- about 200 feet -- from Castro's house.

"I used to see him walking around all the time," he said. "But I never saw nothing crazy. This is unbelievable. It's a miracle they found him, and it's a miracle those girls are alive. It's a blessing from God."

Michelle Knight's grandmother, Deborah Knight, said she had not yet heard from police but was waiting for some kind of verification that one of the women is really her granddaughter. Although Michelle Knight was reported missing more than a decade ago, family members concluded that she probably left on her own because she was angry that her son was removed from her custody, the grandmother said. She said her daughter believed she had last seen Michelle Knight several years ago in a van with an older man at a shopping plaza on West 117th Street.

A June 2004 story that appeared in the Plain Press, a West Side neighborhood newspaper, was written by someone named Ariel Castro and described the community's anxiety since the disappearance of DeJesus and Berry. A Plain Press spokesman said the Ariel Castro who wrote for the publication was a journalism student whose relationship to the man in custody is not known.

The author interviewed DeJesus' mother, Nancy Ruiz, and a group of parents waiting for their children to be released from Wilbur Wright Middle School. They spoke of the need for greater security and the fear that had settled upon the neighborhood.

"For seven weeks, Gina's family has been organizing searches, holding prayer vigils, posting fliers and calling press conferences," Castro wrote. "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."

Rachel Dissell and Peter Krouse contributed to this story. There will be updates on this.

The videos are explicit and we express discretion in this. Amanda Berry and hero Charles Ramsey call 911 and there will be explicit language from both.


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BREAKING: Missing Cleveland Women Held Captive Freed!

Found alive with two other women. Gina DeJesus and two other woman were held captive by individual.

THIS IS A BREAKING EVENT! WE HERE AT JOURNAL DE LE REYNA SEND OUR PRAYERS TO THE THREE YOUNG WOMEN WHO WERE KIDNAPPED BY THIS INDIVIDUAL. WE SEEK JUSTICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED IN THIS KIDNAPPING. WE WILL STAY ON THIS EVENT AS MORE DETAILS EMERGE! 

Three women who were once teenagers apparently turned up alive in Cleveland, Ohio. The alleged kidnapper was arrested.

The FBI and Cleveland Police were looking for these young women for years.

This news comes to over ten years of hope being lost and the possibility these women would be found dead.

This amazing news will travel and of course, we'll be covering this here at Journal de la Reyna.

CNN reports that Amanda Berry one of the victims busted out of the kidnapper's home and called the police.

The break the FBI and Cleveland Police needed came today.

Three women who went missing years ago in separate cases have been found together Monday in Cleveland, Ohio, police said.

One of the women called 911 after breaking out of the house where she had been living.

Amanda Berry.

"Help me, I am Amanda Berry," she said, her voice distraught and quick, according to an audio recording of the call released Monday night. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here and I'm free now."

Another 911 call came in less than a minute later from a man who saw Berry busting out of the house.

"She's like, 'This (expletive) kidnapped me and my daughter,'" Charles Ramsey told 911.

A 52-year-old man has been arrested, Cleveland police said on their website. Brian Cummins, a councilman who represents the area where the women were found, said the suspect's name is Ariel Castro.

Cleveland Police found missing women.

The three women are in fair condition, Gerald Maloney, an emergency department physician at Metro Health Medical Center, said Monday night.

"I am thankful that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight have been found alive," Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said. "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."

Angie Garcia, whose aunt lives across the street from where the women were found, said Berry ran over to the house Monday and begged to use the phone. Berry, who was carrying a child, told the aunt who she was and then asked to use the phone to call 911.

The women and another young child came out of the house across the street, Garcia said.

"We never saw the girls there and we were always outside," she said. "We only saw the guy."

Berry and DeJesus were in their teens when they disappeared in 2003 and 2004, CNN affiliate WEWS reported. Knight went missing in 2002, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Benghazi: A Republican/Fox News Feature!

Republicans and conservatives mount pressure on President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over their obsession with Benghazi. 

The Republican outreach is a total failure. The outreach to win minority voters is not succeeding.

They're practically begging themselves for a defeat. If you're getting frustrated with the job of Congress, you're not alone. The low approved Congress hasn't passed major legislation since President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term. The failure of compromise has poisoned Washington.

The Republicans are gathering their talking points from the folks over at Loserville and they're continuing a strategy that is determined to eventually backfire. The Republicans have no real strategy to win back Congress. Their only objective for the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is to draft the Articles of Impeachment over issues such as this controversy, Syria, the Boston Marathon tragedy, gun control, and the impending sequester they've supported. They're dragging Congress all the way to the bottom.

For one thing, I am not concerned about the controversy.

Let me take that back! I am concerned about it in a way that the deceased are being used a "props" for this ridiculous witch hunt. Yeah, since they want to use that term to describe those families of the Sandy Hook tragedy, I found it worthy of my time to say the same about this issue.

Attack on U.S. Consulate in Libya.

I never knew that Republicans are so quick to pinpoint a horrible tragedy. I mean weren't we all Americans on September 11, 2001?

We all stood in unison when that happened. George W. Bush managed got a huge rise in popularity during this tragedy.As far as it goes, no one should talk negative about September 11, 2001. Remember whenever someone criticized the tragedy, you would expect Republicans and conservatives screaming out of their lungs wanted someone to be punished for attacking on the dead.

This tragedy in Benghazi continues to be a political football among the kookspiracy.

The United States Consulate in Benghazi comes under attack.

It was an act of terrorism sparked by an active group of individuals who have ties to some extremist group. They've used the cover of Middle East protests to sneak into the consulate and kill four Americans.

We're not done yet! Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California).

The attack began during the night at a compound that is meant to protect the consulate building. A second assault in the early morning the next day targeted a nearby CIA annex in a different diplomatic compound. Four people were killed, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Ten others were injured. The attack was strongly condemned by the governments of Libya, the United States, and many other countries throughout the world.

The Republicans crusade to get "all the answers" to what happen continues on.

The Republicans continue to beat down a drum to obscurity with this hearing this Wednesday.

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California), Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) are leading a panel of these  "whistle-blowers" who were there during the attack. The Republicans shut the Democrats out of the panel.

Mark Thompson and Greg Hicks are the key figures in this panel. They will try to prove the Republicans talking point that Benghazi was a "cover up" and the president allowed people to die.

The Washington Post reports that the new details are certain to reignite a debate over whether the Obama administration has been sufficiently forthcoming in its public accounting of the events and missteps that resulted in the first death of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty in a generation. If Republicans in Congress succeed in portraying the administration’s response as feckless, the episode could dog any future political aspirations of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was secretary of state when the attacks happened.

After the attacks ended without planes being scrambled or special forces dispatched, the lieutenant colonel in Tripoli who commanded the Special Operations team told Hicks he was sorry his men had been held back.

Four American diplomats were killed.

“I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life that a State Department officer has bigger balls than someone in the military,” the officer told Hicks, according to the diplomat’s account. Hicks called that “a nice compliment.”

Hicks may have been the last American official to speak with Stevens. After an embassy security official ran into his residence to tell him about the attack, Hicks managed to get Stevens on the phone.

“Greg, we’re under attack,” Stevens blurted out, according to Hicks. “My response is ‘Okay,’ and I’m about to say something else and the line clicks.”

The administration has said the independent review of the Benghazi attack was exhaustive, and State Department officials have vowed to implement reforms to make U.S. missions abroad safer. Republicans, however, say Hicks’s account suggests the administration has not been entirely truthful.

“The White House and the Pentagon have allowed us to believe that there were no military options on the table,”  Chaffetz said in a phone interview. “The model of the military is to leave no person behind, and it’s stunning and unacceptable to think we had military willing and ready to go and the Pentagon told them to stand down. That’s just not the American way.”

Combative debate over Benghazi

Chaffetz said the troops who were not allowed to travel to Benghazi would have arrived after the attack on the CIA base but may have provided first aid to wounded personnel. He noted that the order to keep them from traveling was given before the second attack.

A Pentagon spokesman said he would review the Hicks testimony. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters that the Republican-led inquiry appears to be politicized, saying it was “not a collaborative process.”

He said, however, that the State Department is not seeking to suppress the accounts of whistleblowers. “We have always encouraged any State Department employee who wants to share their story and tell the truth,” he said.

Part of the Benghazi debate has focused on whether prompt action might have saved lives. In the initial attack, militants overran the compound where Stevens was staying and he and another State Department officer, Sean Smith, were killed. Others made their way to a nearby annex used by the CIA, where two Americans, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, died in an attack several hours later.

Hicks, a veteran foreign service officer who is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, told congressional staffers that he and others in Libya thought that flying U.S. military jets over Benghazi during the early hours of the attack could have had a deterrent effect.

“If we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the [CIA] annex in the morning, because I believe the Libyans would have split,” Hicks said. “They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them.”

Hicks said that late on the night of Sept. 11 he called the embassy’s defense attache, Lt. Col. Keith Phillips, and asked about the viability of sending jets.

“Is there anything coming?” he said he asked.

Phillips told Hicks that the nearest planes were at Aviano Air Base in Italy and that it would take two to three hours to get them off the ground, the diplomat told congressional staffers. There also were no aircraft nearby that could have refueled airborne planes.

“The answer was, it’s too far away, there are no tankers, there is nothing, there is nothing that could respond,” he said.