{"id":62769,"date":"2025-08-06T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62769\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:19:09","slug":"gena-heraty-please-release-her-charity-appeals-to-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62769\/","title":{"rendered":"Gena Heraty: &#8216;Please release her&#8217; &#8211; charity appeals to kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kathleen Davey was raised in Haiti by missionary parents and still has relatives living there; two of her cousins were kidnapped by gangs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of her cousins is a doctor who was kidnapped in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was doing good, as I&#8217;m sure Gena was as well, and basically she was taken. She was kept for five days and luckily we were able to negotiate and get her released,&#8221; Ms Davey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002grr9\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Good Morning Ulster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The gangs are basically taking advantage of disaffected youth because they have nothing, the government is non-existent, there&#8217;s a political vacuum, there&#8217;s a moral vacuum as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is what is fuelling the gangs, they have nothing else, they have no hope,&#8221; Ms Davey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that her family are in &#8220;constant fear but life goes on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the programme that she doesn&#8217;t recognise the country she grew up in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very upsetting to hear the Haiti I knew is no longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kathleen Davey was raised in Haiti by missionary parents and still has relatives living there; two of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-62769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}