One of the kidnap victims, Michelle Knight, was a victim before getting kidnapped.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...a-DeJesus.html
Michelle refuses to have contact with her family.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...ed_by_tro.html
Michelle was raped by some athletes at school. Since they were sports stars, her reports were ignored by the school and police. Police refused to press charges. So she dropped out of high school to raise the baby.
The mother was a drug addict who invited her dealer to move in with her. The dealer beat Michelle's infant, but the mother blamed the daughter. So child protective services took the child. Michelle was kidnapped the day she was supposed to appear at the hearing to get custody back. The mother told the authorities that she ran away due to shame. 15 months after she was kidnapped, when the authorities tried to confirm Michelle was still missing, Barbara refused to confirm it, so the FBI took her off the missing persons list.
http://www.19actionnews.com/story/22...n-the-hospital
http://statecasefiles.justia.com/doc...-ohio-3667.pdf
He appealed his plea bargain, and that appeal was upheld.