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Immigration Spotlight...Three Ohio women found alive after being missing for a decade; 3 Mexicans arrested
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Leroy N. Soetoro
May 8, 2013, 3:04:51 PM5/8/13
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Police continued to say little Tuesday about Michelle Knight, the third
woman found in a Cleveland home this week after she disappeared more than
10 years ago.
Knight, 32, walked out of the house Monday on Seymour Avenue along with
Gina DeJesus after Amanda Berry broke through a locked door with the
assistance of a neighbor, Cleveland police said at a news conference
Tuesday. All three women were described as being in "fairly good health."
The disappearances of Berry in 2003 and DeJesus in 2004 generated
widespread attention and searches over the past decade, but Knight's case
drew little notice. No photos of her have been released.
Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba acknowledged Tuesday that most of the
investigation over the past decade had been "geared toward" Berry and
DeJesus. Knight, he said, "was the focus of very few tips."
He and other authorities would say little else about Knight, except that
she had been missing since Aug 22, 2002. Even her age is uncertain; it has
been reported as anywhere from 30 to 32, although public records indicate
that she was born in April 1981, which would have made her 21 when she
disappeared — an adult with the right to leave home if she wanted.
Tomba did promise that eventually, Knight's story "is going to come out."
Police didn't look widely for Knight after they and social workers
concluded that she ran off on her own because she was angry she had lost
custody of her son, Deborah Knight, her grandmother, told the Plain Dealer
of Cleveland on Monday.
Knight's mother, Barbara Knight, told the newspaper that Michelle vanished
shortly after she was scheduled for a court appearance in the custody
case.
Barbara Knight said she never bought the story that her daughter had run
away and tirelessly kept searching for years. Even now, she told the
newspaper, all she knows is coming from news reports, and she has doubts
that the woman found Monday really is her daughter.
"I'm praying that if it is her, she will come back with me, so I can help
her recover from what she has been through," Barbara Knight said. "So much
has happened in these 10 years. She has a younger sister she still has not
met."
Judy Martin, founder of the Cleveland advocacy group Survivors/ Victims of
Tragedy, told NBC News that Knight simply "slipped through the cracks."
"If it hadn't been for the families in these two cases, nothing would have
been done," said Martin, who was active in the campaign to find DeJesus.
Barbara Knight described a decade-long period of frustration with
Cleveland police, with whom she filed a missing persons report and a photo
years ago, only to see the information left out of news reports while the
disappearances of Berry and DeJesus were widely covered.
Barbara Knight said Michelle was the victim of an assault at school when
she was 17. She said her daughter reported the incident to police but
didn't think she was taken seriously. Soon after, Michelle got pregnant
and dropped out of school, her mother said.
Barbara Knight said she believed she saw her daughter once a few years ago
at a Cleveland shopping center, being pulled by the arm by an older man.
She told the Plain Dealer that she yelled Michelle's name, but the woman
didn't respond.
"I really miss her," she told the newspaper. "She was my daughter, but she
was also my friend. She tried to make the best of her life and wanted to
finish school. She never got the chance to go back."
--
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America.
Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.
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Police continued to say little Tuesday about Michelle Knight, the third
woman found in a Cleveland home this week after she disappeared more than
10 years ago.
Knight, 32, walked out of the house Monday on Seymour Avenue along with
Gina DeJesus after Amanda Berry broke through a locked door with the
assistance of a neighbor, Cleveland police said at a news conference
Tuesday. All three women were described as being in "fairly good health."
The disappearances of Berry in 2003 and DeJesus in 2004 generated
widespread attention and searches over the past decade, but Knight's case
drew little notice. No photos of her have been released.
Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba acknowledged Tuesday that most of the
investigation over the past decade had been "geared toward" Berry and
DeJesus. Knight, he said, "was the focus of very few tips."
He and other authorities would say little else about Knight, except that
she had been missing since Aug 22, 2002. Even her age is uncertain; it has
been reported as anywhere from 30 to 32, although public records indicate
that she was born in April 1981, which would have made her 21 when she
disappeared — an adult with the right to leave home if she wanted.
Tomba did promise that eventually, Knight's story "is going to come out."
Police didn't look widely for Knight after they and social workers
concluded that she ran off on her own because she was angry she had lost
custody of her son, Deborah Knight, her grandmother, told the Plain Dealer
of Cleveland on Monday.
Knight's mother, Barbara Knight, told the newspaper that Michelle vanished
shortly after she was scheduled for a court appearance in the custody
case.
Barbara Knight said she never bought the story that her daughter had run
away and tirelessly kept searching for years. Even now, she told the
newspaper, all she knows is coming from news reports, and she has doubts
that the woman found Monday really is her daughter.
"I'm praying that if it is her, she will come back with me, so I can help
her recover from what she has been through," Barbara Knight said. "So much
has happened in these 10 years. She has a younger sister she still has not
met."
Judy Martin, founder of the Cleveland advocacy group Survivors/ Victims of
Tragedy, told NBC News that Knight simply "slipped through the cracks."
"If it hadn't been for the families in these two cases, nothing would have
been done," said Martin, who was active in the campaign to find DeJesus.
Barbara Knight described a decade-long period of frustration with
Cleveland police, with whom she filed a missing persons report and a photo
years ago, only to see the information left out of news reports while the
disappearances of Berry and DeJesus were widely covered.
Barbara Knight said Michelle was the victim of an assault at school when
she was 17. She said her daughter reported the incident to police but
didn't think she was taken seriously. Soon after, Michelle got pregnant
and dropped out of school, her mother said.
Barbara Knight said she believed she saw her daughter once a few years ago
at a Cleveland shopping center, being pulled by the arm by an older man.
She told the Plain Dealer that she yelled Michelle's name, but the woman
didn't respond.
"I really miss her," she told the newspaper. "She was my daughter, but she
was also my friend. She tried to make the best of her life and wanted to
finish school. She never got the chance to go back."
--
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America.
Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.
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