Two years ago Anthony Sowell was convicted of murdering eleven women in the Mount Pleasant area of Cleveland and this week three young women escaped from their ten year captivity in the basement of a home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland.
One of the women reported that another child had been there when she was first kidnapped, but that child disappeared. Over the past ten years these three young women were sexually brutalized, had multiple pregnancies and miscarriages with one six year old little girl surviving.
Over the past four years I have been volunteering at the Thea Bowman Center in the Mount Pleasant area of Cleveland. Hearing about these horrendous crimes disturbs me to the very core of my being. God have mercy on us.
