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I am so upset after reading the memoir put out by Michelle Knight - one of the women held captive for 10+ years in Cleveland by that sicko. While she was in captivity, her 2-year-old son was eventually adopted by his foster parents.
Her memoir describes how her love for her son kept her alive during her 11 years in captivity being tortured and abused . After she finally escaped, officials reached out to his adopted family to reunite the mother and son. The adoptive family refuses to let Michelle Knight see her son, stating that they feel he is too young (at age 14) to know who his mom is. Where is this family's humanity and compassion? I feel deserves to know he was always loved and never intentionally abandoned.
What are your thoughts?
I saw her on Dr Phil--I must say for someone who was labeled as mentally challenged she certainly is a wise woman. She is so brave and strong after all she has been through. I know that the city where the women live gave them all $250,000 to help start their lives fresh. The Dr Phil foundation also gave Michelle ( who has changed her name to Lilly) almost $500,000 dollars in donations from viewers. With the sales of her book she will certainly be a millionaire---and she (and the other women) deserves every penny of it after what they went through.
What also struck me during the interview was how compassionate she was-----she said that when she learned Ariel Castro had killed himself she felt sorry for his family and the sadness they felt because she had lost someone she loved, her son. She also talked about him being in foster care and she understands how detrimental it would be for him to take him from the family he has known since he was 2 so she was not pursuing possible dissolution of the adoption on the grounds that she did not abandon him. She was actually on her way to a hearing at CPS to try to get him back on the day she was taken.
She is a remarkable woman. She is now going to culinary school and living in her own apartment. She is a wonderful testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.
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