Bibi Aisha, the Afghan girl, was only 12 year old when her father promised a Taliban fighter to give her to him and at 14 she was married off to him. They kept her as a slave and she was forced to sleep with the animals. Unable to withstand the abuse of her husband’s family, she fled home. After the neighbors betrayed, her father was once again forced to give her to husband and was assured that they will treat her better. But the things became worse for her. One day her husband took her for a walk and while he was holding her down his brother chopped off her nose and ears as other Taliban militants watched. She was left to die in the mountains.
“I passed out,” she said in an interview with CNN’s Atia Abawi. “In the middle of the night it felt like there was cold water in my nose.”
It was her own blood, so much of it, she told Abawi. “I couldn’t even see…”
Somehow Aisha managed to her grandfather’s home. Then she was taken to a medical center run by the U.S. military, and thereafter transferred to a privately-run shelter for women victims of domestic violence. After spending nearly three months there, in August Aisha was brought to the U.S., where she is under the care of an American family.
Now the girl is 19 years old, and recently a plastic surgeon gave her a new face. The operation was facilitated by a Los Angeles charity Grossman Burn Foundation.
In addition, she received the award “Enduring Heart” presented by Maria Shriver the First Lady of California, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of the State.
Aisha, after all that she endured, intends to combat domestic violence and advocate for women’s rights.
Calling this wonderful person, that endured the full force of mankind’s hatred, a “Poster Girl” is despicable. seerpress is a journalistic fraud. I will never come back to this site.