toward parwanna's father and the buyer after our story went to air. with claims they brought shame on the community. even the taliban told cnn the practice is forbidden. >> translator: i request everyone not to sell their children. child marriage is not a good thing and we condemn it. >> reporter: women's rights activists and this u.s. citizen who chose to stay in kabul after the taliban swept to power in august to run her women's shelter says parwana's case is just the tip of the iceberg. >> there is a lot of misery, a lot of mistreatment. there is a lot of abuse involved in these things. it will keep on happening with the hunger, with winter, with poverty. >> reporter: as a result of the controversy caused by the story an intervention from the charity, parwana was allowed to return home after almost two weeks with the buyer's family. since parwana has been rescued i am very happy for that says her father. he admitted to cnn that under

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