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