Cleveland Hero Charles Ramsey Interview on Kidnappings

Good Samaritan Charles Ramsey helped save three captive women then gave the best interview ever televised:

Three women, who went missing separately about a decade ago, were rescued from a house in Cleveland after one of the missing women flagged down a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, who then helped her slip through an obstructed front door.

Man speaks his mind, I’ll give him that. This is an insane, scary story and one can only imagine what these women have gone through.

Amanda Berry disappeared in 2003 from a busy block in Cleveland at the age of 16. Berry, imprisoned in a house owned by Ariel Castro, is now 27. To complicate matters, recent tests confirm that alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro is the father of Berry’s six-year-old daughter, who was also kept hidden from the outside world. Who helped deliver the baby and where did Berry give birth? Police reports verify that delivery took place in an inflatable pool and Michelle, whose life was threatened by Ariel, delivered the child. More on Michelle later.

Ariel’s brothers, Pedro Castro, 54, and Oneil Castro, 50, have also been arrested in connection with the kidnappings of the three women: Amanda Berry, now 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32. As suspected accessories to kidnapping, It looks as if this event may have been a family affair. There is even a video of Pedro telling reporters last July what a waste of time searching for Berry is. You can read more about the brothers @ DailyMailOnline

Another interesting issue that will never be fully addressed by the media is that of Michelle Knight, one of the three women found in the house who went missing August 2002, before either Berry or DeJesus. Michelle asked her privacy be respected shortly after being found, in light of that however, there is less media coverage and public knowledge on Michelle Knight because police officials and social workers assumed she ran away from her family on her own freewill — at least that is what they told Michelle’s family — and the search for her was dropped. Consequently the FBI never got involved. The only person who believed Michelle was kidnapped was her mother, Barbara Knight, as reported by the Plain Dealer. So sadly, no one is making a big media fuss over Michelle Knight because no one made a big media fuss over her when she went missing, which to me says a lot about our current media influenced society.

Police eventually stopped searching for Michelle, but Barbara kept papering the city of Cleveland with fliers. She eventually moved to Florida but kept going back to Ohio to look for her daughter even though the FBI apparently never got involved with the case.

The scariest thing about this story however is the fact that this isn’t as uncommon as many believe. Human trafficking is a reality society hasn’t even scratched the surface of. Kidnapping is a despicable act. I hope the Castros get what’s coming to them.

~ by Fionnlagh on May 8, 2013.

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