Hooray! I left a similar note with ways to help in response to Tim’s own yesterday. There is so much that we can do and so many who need our help in each community.

Mentoring, as the schools in the district in which we live have it set up, is particularly necessary and almost every child needing it has been abused, if not…

Here’s How I Plan to End Modern Slavery

Here’s How I Plan to End Modern Slavery

In 2012, I visited a shelter in Kolkata, India. There, I met a 10-year-old girl who had been born in a brothel. Her mother had been held there after she was sold into prostitution. Miraculously…

Stranger on a Train — Good Friday 2010

On Good Friday in 2010, we had to pick up our car, the car that our daughter Annie’s dead or dying body had been pulled from in 2008, her body then stuffed behind a dumpster in Baltimore. The police had impounded the car as evidence for over a year. Then, when…

This is definitely an angle worth looking into, but we can probably clear up some of the questions you raise. The L’Espresso pieces were written in the months after the Ghost Boat disappeared, and a lot more has become clear since then.

First, Segen and Abigail were not part of the group that were kidnapped, although we have…