“I’ve been up all night worrying,” Lutsko told CNN Saturday from her home in Columbus, Ohio. “I’ll be so happy to hear she’s back on US soil.”
Lutsko says her daughter, Madison Spellman, a graduate student and travel nurse, was at a coffee shop when a group of protestors took to the streets. The employees locked the doors and encouraged everyone to hunker down, Spellman told his mom.
Lutsko said she sent messages to both the White House and US Embassy to ask for assistance in bringing her daughter home.
“I feel helpless,” she said.
Next week, Lutsko is expecting the family to arrive from out of town for