While interviewing the DeJesus family in their home, news reporter Lydia Esparra explained to CNN, "One of her relatives started speaking Spanish and Gina looks at her mom and she says, 'Mom, I don't remember Spanish.'" Esparra explained that DeJesus most likely forgot the language since she did not practice it while she lived with her captor.
Esparra is apparently the only reporter who has been invited into the house by the DeJesus family. She covered almost all of Gina's vigils while she was missing and said she felt a bond with the mother, Nancy Ruiz, since she was first put on the story. She also got to know the father.
Esparra was at the home on Thursday covering the story with hundreds of reporters when the family saw her and invited her inside. She was inside for about five minutes, enough to see how comfortable Gina seemed, even though she'd essentially been tortured and held in confinement for almost a decade.
"It was like she'd never been missing. They all connected so quickly," Esparra said. "Her father said she is feeling overwhelmed about everything, but at least she's sleeping well."
DeJesus, who was kidnapped at 14, was used as a sex slave along with Amanda Berry, 27 and Michelle Knight, 32. They were finally rescued last Monday after Berry managed to escape with help of a neighbor and dialed 911. The three women were raped, beaten and forced to wear dog leashes while naked.
Now Gina is focusing on her mental and emotional recovery.
"Gina wants to go back to school, get her driver's license and get a haircut," revealed Matt Zone, a Cleveland city councilman, to People. While spending time with her family, Zone learned, "She wants to learn to put on makeup, all those girly things. It's the simple things -- those are the things that are the most precious to her."
Zone also confessed that Gina's mother Nancy Ruiz plans on teaching her daughter Spanish again.
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