In , Michelle fell in love and married Miguel Rodriguez , who had been introduced to her by mutual friends. Michelle overcame her trauma and is happily married and a motivational speaker and advocate for trafficked and abused women and children. Her only regret is that her suffering at the hands of Castro left her unable to have more children.
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Women with Will. TV Shows. Inspirational Stories. Advertise with us. Contact us. About us. Celebrity February 16, Share Share this pen. Throughout her decade in captivity, Michelle clung to the hope of being reunited with her son Joey. Read also. After dating a male classmate Michelle welcomed son Joey at age 18, vowing to be the best mother she could despite struggling financially and still living at home. According to Michelle, she lost custody of Joey in early after her mother's boyfriend got drunk and fractured her son's knee, and he was eventually put in foster car.
On the day of Michelle's kidnapping she had been on her way to a case management meeting and got lost, stopping into a store to ask for directions. I tried to call them on a payphone. It didn't work. Michelle was relieved when a man offered to help her and she recognised him — it was Castro, but he wouldn't take her to the hearing, instead locking her up inside his house. One of the first things Castro did to Michelle when he imprisoned her was cruelly taunt her about Joey.
Michelle's family filed a missing-person report in the days following her sudden disappearance. However it was quickly presumed by police and loved ones that she was a runaway, possibly disgruntled after losing custody of Joey. But in reality Michelle was being chained up "like a fish" for days on end, as well as being repeatedly raped by Castro, who told her he was a sex addict. Seven months later, in April , Michelle was joined by year-old Amanda, who Castro kidnapped walking home from her job.
In Castro abducted Gina, who was just 14 at the time and on her way home from middle school. But Castro hated Michelle the most, with law enforcement later putting it down to the fact that she often spoke back to him. You can only make them stronger," Michelle said in a interview with NBC. Michelle fell pregnant "four or five times", however, Castro would beat her until she miscarried.
The injuries she suffered at his hands were so severe it has left Michelle unable to have children today. Michelle was also forbidden to speak to the other women and said trying to escape was too risky. She was held prisoner by Ariel Castro , suffering abuse at his hands for more than 10 years. The women's harrowing ordeal made the case a media sensation.
Born in April , Knight grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. As a girl, she wanted to pursue a career as a firefighter and later aspired to become a veterinarian. Unfortunately, Knight — whose height of 4 feet, 7 inches earned her the nickname "Shorty" — was bullied in high school.
At the age of 17, she told her mother that she had been assaulted at school. Knight dropped out of school after becoming pregnant. She had a son, whom she named Joey. When the boy was a toddler, an injury — possibly caused by an abusive boyfriend of her mother's — led to his being taken away from Knight and placed in foster care.
On August 23, , Knight left her cousin's house and subsequently disappeared. Her family reported her as missing, but most eventually came to believe that Knight, distraught over losing her son and unable to deal with the negative turn her life had taken, had run away on her own.
Though her mother continued to post fliers about her daughter, Knight was removed from the FBI's database of missing persons in In fact, Knight had been offered a ride by Castro on that fateful August day.
As she knew one of his daughters, Knight accepted the lift. She then agreed to enter Castro's Cleveland home, located at Seymour Avenue, when he promised to give her a puppy for her son.
Once inside, Knight was restrained and imprisoned. It was the beginning of years of torture.
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