Michelle Knight refuses to meet with her family because she feels they gave up on her. The kidnapper used to torture the girls by showing them televised stories about candlelight vigils held by the families. It was only the two other girls who had families that kept looking for them this way. Also, Ms. Knight was very abused - she was starved and/or beaten so that she miscarried five separate times. She was also made to deliver Ms. Berry's daughter and was told that if this baby died, she would be killed.