Kidnap victim shuns family: Michelle Knight, Cleveland kidnap victim, was beaten so badly she has to have facial reconstructive surgery. Reports say Knight is shunning her family for not looking for her, not allowing them to visit her in the hospital. Earlier this week, Knight and two other women were rescued in Cleveland from 11 years of captivity in the home of Ariel Castro, alleged kidnapper.

Knight was held for more than a decade - the longest of the three victims held in Castro's home - and has just been released from the hospital. The other two victims,, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, went home to their family days ago.

Currently, Knight has refused visits from relatives, possibly in part because some of her relatives believed she ran away when she disappeared and didn't look for Knight.

Knight's grandmother, Deborah Knight, told reporters that they believed Michelle had run away at the time because her son had been removed from her custody and she was upset. Police and social workers led them to believe that Michelle ran away, her grandmother said.

Doctors have described Knight as in good health, but it's possible that neither her mother nor grandmother have seen her. One report says that she saw her mother briefly but that it was tense and Michelle asked her mother to leave.  Of visiting Michelle, her grandmother said "No, we haven't - on her request. She does not want to be seen by family."

Her grandmother also said that Michelle will need facial reconstructive surgery, saying ""When she was severely beaten, he had beat her so bad in the face, she has to have facial reconstruction, and she's lost hearing in one ear."

Michelle did let her brother, Freddie Knight, visit her briefly. He said of the visit, "Her skin was white as a ghost. She told me she was excited to start a new life." He has since stayed away on recommendation of hospital staff, but spoken to Knight on the telephone once.

Knight disappeared at age 20 in August 2002, and Gina DeJesus went missing at age 14 in April 2004 while walking home from school. Amanda Berry, the first of the captives to escape, disappeared a day before her 17^th birthday in April 2003 after finishing a shift at her job at Burger King.

Berry's aunt, Gale Mitchell, said her family always held out hope Berry was alive.

"You don't give up hope; you just pray and pray and pray," she said "It's crazy. I always knew that Amanda was a strong-willed person and eventually I knew she would get out of there. I just knew it. I just wondered 'Why not sooner?'" Mitchell wondered.