2 Ohio kidnapping survivors ink book deals

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FILE - These undated handout file photos provided by the FBI show Amanda Berry, left, and Georgina "Gina" Dejesus. Ohio State Rep. John Barnes Jr. wants the state to provide years of relief payments and a free ride to college for the three Cleveland women abducted and held in captivity for about a decade. Barnes Jr. is introducing his Survivors of Abduction Act on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. It would provide Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight at least $25,000 a year in reparations for the years they were restrained and tuition, fees and living expenses at a public college. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

NEW YORK (AP) - Two of the three Ohio women held captive for years in a Cleveland house have a book deal. Viking announced Monday that it has acquired the planned book by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. The book is currently untitled and is scheduled to come out in 2015.
Berry and DeJesus are working with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan. Negotiations were handled by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whose clients have ranged from President Barack Obama to Amanda Knox.
Berry, DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued in May and their kidnapper, Ariel Castro, was arrested and eventually sentenced to life in prison. He was found hanged in his cell in September.
Knight is working on her own memoir, which Weinstein Books plans to publish next spring.