I'm Glad I was Wrong

It was just a a short time ago I found myself wrapped up in the horrible news of the bombing in Boston...Followed by the horrible fire/explosion in Texas...Then the manhunt for the Boston bombers...When one was dead, and the other captured, Boston celebrated...And the rest of us understood that feeling...

Well, Monday night in Cleveland there was a reason given to celebrate...A girl named Amanda Berry, who was kidnapped and held captive for 10 years, found the courage to try to escape...And strangers were willing to rush to help her...




Charles Ramsey, best interview ever!

Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were teenagers when they went missing 10 and 9 years ago...Also found with them and Michelle Knight who went missing in 2002 when she was 20 years old...Police classified her as voluntarily missing...When Berry exited the home she had a small child with her...There have been conflicting reports whether there was another young child...One young child has been confirmed to be Berry's...

Their capture was 52 year old Ariel Castro...Police also have 2 other people said to be his brothers, in custody who they feel were involved in this...In a creepier twist, Castro's son, also named Ariel, wrote an ARTICLE for a neighborhood paper while he was in college at Bowling Green, on how Gina DeJesus's disappearance affected the community...He interviewed her mother for it...

The DeJesus family has always stayed strong, and always felt she was alive...Berry's family also tried to keep hope, sadly her mother died in 2006, never getting to be reunited with her daughter...

Me, I thought/assumed they were dead...I was wrong, and I'm glad...These girls suffered what was I'm sure a horrible ten years...But they are alive...And now they are free...Well, physically free...I'm sure they have some serious emotional trauma to get through...

While we see this evil that took these girls from their families, and did horrible things to them...We also have to see and embrace the good that finally won out...And we need to use this moment to not give up on the hundreds and thousands of kids that have gone missing.