Michelle Knight made the courageous decision to speak out at the sentencing hearing of her captor Ariel Castro. Knight was one of three women held prisoner and brutalized by Ariel Castro. Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus did not attend the hearing but sent representatives to speak on their behalf.
When Michelle Knight got up in front of the judge she did not go into detail about the brutality she endured during her 11-year captivity. Rather she spoke about her friendship with Gina DeJesus. Knight and DeJesus would lean on one another for support and Knight said it was DeJesus that would keep her hope alive, pulling Knight out of the darkness.
Knight spoke about the son she had before being taken by Castro. Michelle Knight said the thought of her son would break her heart and she felt as though she was all alone. Knight addressed Castro without looking at him calling him a hypocrite for attending church on Sunday and returning home to attack his captives.
Knight rhetorically asked what Castro believed God thought of his actions. Knight also told Castro her hell was over, but his was just beginning.
"Now your hell is just beginning...I will live on and you will die a little each day," Knight told Castro.
The representatives for Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus thanked all the people who helped to bring their loved ones home. Each representative said Berry and DeJesus are doing well describing laughing, dancing and swimming. Amanda Berry asked via her sister who was representing her that she be given more privacy for the sake of her daughter.
Amanda Berry has a six-year-old and does not want the child to know the truth about what happened to her mother and the circumstances surrounding her birth just yet. Berry asks that she be allowed to tell her child the truth in the proper time.
The Prosecution asked the judge to hit Castro with the harshest punishment the court will allow in order to send a message to others thinking of attempting what he did.
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