Samantha Canada suffered serious abuse at the hands of her husband, Jody Canada. After many failed attempts to reconcile, Samantha ran away for good, with her daughters, to the home of her parents, Ivalene and Bob Estep.

"Right now, I am afraid for my life. I don't know what he's gonna do next. I can't go nowhere; I can't hardly sleep. At the family reunion, he walked up to me and spit in my face and punched me in my stomach. Then he called me a bitch and took off."