{"id":18650,"date":"2018-05-08T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/?p=18650"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:24:07","slug":"cleveland-kidnapping-survivors-5yrs-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/healthcare\/third-party\/cleveland-kidnapping-survivors-5yrs-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Kidnapping Survivors: Where Are They 5 Years Later?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Opening Insights: What Happened 5 Years Ago?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2XRzsNbskTA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Informational Insights: 5 Years Later<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Knight \u2014 37 years-old and now going by the name Lillian Rose Lee \u2014 released her second memoir, Life After Darkness. Her first memoir, Finding Me, was a New York Times bestseller. In her new book, she opens up about her trauma, depression and relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole world had heard the story of how I had been damaged by a filthy older man,\u201d she wrote in her book, excerpted exclusively in this week\u2019s issue of PEOPLE. \u201cWho would ever want me after that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But through mutual friends on Facebook, she eventually found love and married Miguel Rodriguez, a medical courier, on May 6, 2016 \u2014 the third anniversary of Knight\u2019s freedom from Castro\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For now, she travels around the world as a public speaker and recently launched her foundation Lily\u2019s Ray of Hope, which supports women and girls who are victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and child abuse<\/strong>. She partnered with specialty coffee maker 3-19 Co. to showcase her artwork and raise money for her foundation, which will eventually provide resources so women can restart their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Berry, now 32, has turned her attention toward spotlighting missing people in Northeast Ohio. When she was inside captor Ariel Castro\u2018s home, he would let her see news segments of people searching for her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Berry is hosting a 30-second daily news segment on Cleveland\u2019s Fox 8 because she wants missing people to know the public is still looking for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we get [the faces of] missing people out there and get people looking at them a second time, a third time, and looking at their name,\u201d Berry told PEOPLE last year. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of the small things that makes a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She partnered with DeJesus and they shared their story in the New York Times bestselling memoir Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, written with Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>She is also raising a daughter, which she delivered while inside Castro\u2019s home. \u201cI\u2019m so proud of how much she\u2019s grown as a person. She\u2019s very caring. And a lot of kids her age are not like that and I find that she is,\u201d Berry told local TV station Fox8.<\/p>\n<p>DeJesus, now 28-years-old and the youngest of the group, has been quietly enjoying life with her tight-knit family in the suburbs of Cleveland, a source told PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>She recently joined forces with the Northeast Ohio Amber Alert Committee. Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy, who works with the group, told Fox8 that DeJesus plans to help survivors and their family members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s such an asset to the team,\u201d Majoy told the local station. \u201cAnywhere in our eight-county area, we will send a victims\u2019 advocate specialist along with Gina to meet with the family and provide them support services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeJesus told the station that she wants to help people in her community. She said, \u201cJust to give back and to help like they helped me when I came home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/cleveland-kidnapping-survivors-where-5-162346116.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Possibilities for Consideration: Pay It Forward<\/h2>\n<p>DeJesus is a woman who has experience the worst of humanity survived. She is an example of resilience and steadfastness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What if <\/em>there was an effective way to expand DeJesus's mission and message... would you support it?<\/li>\n<li><em>What if<\/em> you could be a part of a movement to unite and support children and adults around the world who are taken against their will, abused and tortured?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Add Your Insight:<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.<\/em><br \/>\nMARGARET MEAD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Opening Insights: What Happened 5 Years Ago? 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