Joy through adversity | Terri Roberts | TEDxPittsburghStatePrison 2015

A wife, mother and grandmother, Terri Roberts has also survived serious illness, crediting her faith and a rigorously healthy diet. Mrs. Roberts’ book, “Forgiveness: The Amish School Shooting, A Mother’s Love, and a Story of Remarkable Grace,’’ will be available in the fall of 2015. In 2006, Mrs. Roberts’ son, Charlie, shot and killed five girls inside an Amish school house, wounding five others. The crime – and the Amish community’s response – made international headlines as it propelled Mrs. Roberts and her family into the public’s eye. Mrs. Roberts describes herself has one who has walked through circumstances beyond her ability to cope, and yet found strength, and even joy, along the way.