I read earlier that she did not WANT contact with her own family... who were abusers before the kidnapping... and she had opted to stay with fellow victim.......
Ohio kidnap victim Michelle Knight to be 'adopted' by and live with family of fellow captive Gina DeJesus after refusing to see her mother after release from hospital - Michelle Knight is in the care of Gina DeJesus' family following her release from the hospital
- Her mother Barbara Knight has hired a lawyer to try to get access to her daughter
- Michelle has asked for privacy to get over her trauma
- Said to be in good spirits and grateful for fund to help the victims
By Michael Zennie In Cleveland and Rachel Quigley
PUBLISHED: 21:15 GMT, 10 May 2013 | UPDATED: 22:59 GMT, 10 May 2013
Gina DeJesus' family is planning to 'adopt' Michelle Knight and look after her as their daughter after Michelle rejected a meeting with her own mother, a friend of Felix and Nancy DeJesus has revealed to MailOnline.
Lupe Collins, a neighbor who helped the DeJesus family look for Gina since she disappeared in 2004, said Nancy DeJesus told her in a phone call on Thursday that she and her husband are trying to convince Michelle, now 32, to stay with them.
'She was Georgina’s sister for ten years in that house and she’s still her sister now,' Ms Collins said.
'They’re going to take her in as their own family member and help her.
'Michelle doesn’t want to go back to her own family because they abused her before she was kidnapped and they only want the money now.'
Michelle was released from the hospital on Friday and was taken to Gina's house.
Ms Collins said the DeJesus family will be able to offer Knight the loving household that she never had even before she was allegedly kidnapped by Ariel Castro.
'They’re a loving family, a giving family. Felix and Nancy will take care of her and make sure she gets the helps she needs,' Ms Collins said.
Two days ago, Gina triumphantly returned to the neighborhood and walked into her home and hundreds of neighbors and well-wishers cheered.
By contrast, Michelle's homecoming had no fanfare.
Her great aunt Deborah Knight and her brother Freddie told MailOnline today that they had no idea where Knight could stay when she was released from the hospital.
'I don't know where she'll go,' Ms Knight said from her dilapidated house on Cleveland's West Side.
However, Freddie Knight, 30, said he saw his sister in the hospital and she wants her family to be reunited.
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