20 where i thought that i was going to -- i needed to either kill myself and end my life or get out. i was going to uc berkeley. i was actually building relationships with people. and i could start telling them things. >> it's a shocking story. >> josh downer met minh at a support group for adult survivors of abuse. he says it wasn't easy for minh to escape her parents' control, but little by little the friendship she developed empowered her to say no. >> they said jump and she was trained so brutally to say how high that it kind of continued even after they stopped, you know, literally physically forcing her to do things. >> by her sophomore year after a year of therapy, minh wrote her parents an e-mail warning them never to contact her again. she wrote, i will call the district attorney and you can explain why it is okay to rape, beat and enslave your daughter. to collaborate the story, msnbc spoke with her therapist, a well