dr. mcdavid, obviously she was desperate, desperate to get out of that situation, hardly surprising now weknow what it was. did you read anything else into her voice, into her demeanor in that call? >> well, no, i think she was very frightened and i think she had a very small time window that she was working at. from what we understand, he left, she had him leave to pick up some food for the child and she knew she had a very small window of time that she could work with, and she was clearly very afraid. the other thing that we know is that these girls had access or we think they had access to a tv, so they knew every year when their families were looking for them and celebrating the loss, they knew that this was going on. >> you've had lots of experience of issues relating to this kind of situation but nothing quite like this, i shouldn't imagine. one thing people keep asking today is as these women got older, they were there for ten years, could they not have collectively tried to get out? would there have been some psychological hold that the owner of the house or the three brothers coll

dr. mcdavid says, this is unique.e really have not seen a situation where individuals have been in captivity for so long. usually what happens is the prosecutor or an individual who is working with victims in order to elicit information, usually what's done is an forensic interview, which is an interview that is compassionate and defense i believe. it's compassionate in the sense that the questions being asked are nonjudgmental. we're being careful about the information we're getting. and we can -- rely on that information in courts of law. judges and juries can rely on it. the difficulty here though is going to be that it's difficult to -- it may be difficult to develop rapport with some of these victims simply because their experience has been so traumatic, normally what we do is we get to know the individual, we'll talk about a nontraumatic thing. whether it's an adult or a child, we'll ask them about last christmas or we'll ask them about a family holiday they remember. in this case, all three of these women have

dr. mcdavid, thank you very much.ns of girls around the world struggle to get an education. we are looking at the personal stories of young women around the globe leading up to the june airing of the cnn film "girl rising." we start in sierra leon, once called athens of west africa. today it is trying to recover from more than a decade of civil war and regain its place as a great seed of learning. there is a generation of girls speaking out to make it happen. >> my name is sara. >> i love reading. i love writing stories. >> reporter: sara is a natural storyteller. but the young woman with the tinkerbell backpack doesn't write fairy tales. >> they opened the school at the village and the girl wanted to go to the school, but her parents said only the boys are supposed to go. >> reporter: it is the story of war-torn sierra leone where poverty, forced marriage and violence have kept many women from getting an education. women like her mother. >> she can't read or write. i can read and write. that makes a big difference be