but was it really her mike couldn't be sure so he asked questions to which only leonora would know the answers what had best childhood friend's home looked like inside the names of her grandfather's ponies. the answers were correct leonora was alive. even if she was still living under a terrorist regime islamiyah arabic for islamic state. and he was a tall order man or woman young or old and. even slightly toying with the idea of going after dark in the. desert i should be aware of what they're doing and. this is they're making their family go through hell actually turning from you know

her. leonora's family that hell continued every day every week every month mike was haunted by the question of how his daughter was and whether he would ever see her again. winter 20152016 in syria people were being killed on a daily basis on all sides. the one with a 3 cannot for right now there's nothing we can do just wait with the nature of an issue of we're getting experienced in this. of kim not giving up is the most important thing. sometimes you have blows. up you have to carry on. but mike was permanently

on edge the constant flow of messages and use was like being on a hamster wheel that never stopped spinning. leonora contacted him reported that her husband me had now had a slave a woman he bought. it so he had came home yesterday sometime after midnight and said so i've bought myself a slave for $800.00 when i was like $100.00 is nothing it's how can somebody do that comes from a human being it's she's a his eighty's 30 years old and has 2 children so i don't know what to say. let's just so sorry for her arms her blue no idea if not treated her well at all she's really starting from us an accident of the courts of mass executions of women and girls being raped and sold into prostitution and of children being forcibly recruited for fighting for title it seems the displacement of the zs is deliberate people who are not children slave to driven out of their villages with no water or

food. that's what i said i 1st thought was this poor woman of less years 2 kids it's a complete mercy of a dangerous man. how can a person change like that because the question keeps bothering me mr shifty that he's grown up here and probably happily he went to kindergarten and high school a normal civilized person wouldn't buy himself a slave. i'm so shocked. i want to help her and it's like i want her to at least have a few ok days that's headed. to say sorry and i caught. the woman was called la mia she wouldn't be an issue for leonora for very long because soon after this photo was used to offer her for sale back to her yes the family. one year later in 2016 i drove to northern iraq i guess free

territory lammy i had found refuge in a displaced persons camp here like been looking for her for months. i cautiously stepped into the room. i was still severely traumatized. me we communicated with the help of an interpreter. nobody could say how many men had literally owned her she was barely able to talk after a while i showed her a photo of leonora's husband how did he buy her. does she remember his name. with us how did he treat or. yuki's me.

and. then left me alone for the entire time we were there the children likewise barely said a word. llambias husband was still missing she was living and her brother in law's tent. the family had to raise $24000.00 to secure her release money they didn't have. would spend another 3 years in this kurdish tent city since 2900 she and her children have been living in safety in canada and we've been told she's doing a little better. suddenly last night fighters began advancing on the terrace militia's unofficial capital racquel for the air raids on rocker in the autumn of 2017. when.

a short time later leonora left rocca and i asked lost control over the city. when mike heard the news he feared the worst for his daughter as so often before. that it's still you're sitting in or you can't do anything. you feel completely powerless. over to try to distract yourself and not think about it too much and it's through fear that will because there's nothing you can do. the most you just have to accept things as they come. in the.

meanwhile leonora was carrying on with her life she posted m. o. g.'s bracing her 1st week of pregnancy. while leonora was still somewhere in syria i traveled to the liberated city of raka now little more than a wasteland of ruins and rubble i found the apartment where she used to live. in egypt in the mouth when she posted photos from morocco back then i spent ages searching the internet to find out exactly which building she was in. this was what was left of the stairwell leading to her apartment. leonora spent several months here and evidently made herself at home while just out on the streets people were being locked in cages and i as was publicly torturing

and murdering. leonora and other i asked divo ts were now on the run and being hunted down by the international coalition led by the united states. 2017. she was probably somewhere in the vicinity of the euphrates river in eastern syria . and while my continued to keep his bakery running leonora was

trying to find a people smuggler to get her to turkey and out of the war. there is the smuggler who got 10 women out of her yesterday without any problems.