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Mother yesterday to tell my wife look, this is dishonoring us to have my son's future wife go to school. i cannot tell them what to do. this is their wife, their property. as i read this story yesterday, the newspaper was shaking in my hands. i was thinking i will pay the $2500. how do i get there, i'll go this weekend, what do i have to do. as the last word staff began making phone calls to afghanistan yesterday, we discovered quickly that i wasn't the only one who had that reaction to this story, and in fact, the debt had already been paid and naghma's childhood had been saved. joining me no...

Including the cost of trying to save the life of his three-year-old son who died this winter. alyssa rubin the "the new york times" told this gripping story yesterday on the front page. there is taj's six-year-old daughter, naghma, happily sitting in her school which she loves attending, oblivious to the fact her father had lost her in a debt collection case decided by the village elders in a tribunal. the jerga ruled since he couldn't pay the $2500 that he borrowed to pay the medical bills, that he would have to surrender his six-year-old daughter next year to be married to the 17-year-old so...

In afghanistan, how much do you think was lost or corruptly siphoned off in the wrong direction? 10%? 60 billion? let's be modest. let's say only 30 billion, 5%, went the wrong way in afghanistan. that's are you familiar $1,000 per capita for the people of afghanistan. that would be $11,000 for taj mohammad and his family, and that would have meant that he would not have to sell one of his daughters to pay his family's medical bills, including the cost of trying to save the life of his three-year-old son who died this winter. alyssa rubin the "the new york times" told this gripping story yeste...

Fact, the debt had already been paid and naghma's childhood had been saved. joining me now, the woman that saved the day and may have saved the life of six-year-old naghma mohammad, kimberly mottley, an attorney that joins us now from afghanistan. kimberly, there's a little delay in the way we speak here. tell us how you found your way into this case and then how you solved the problem. >> okay. well, basically i found myself in this situation, i was contacted by an anonymous donor who basically wanted to pay the debt off, in addition to many other donors. they contacted me because basically w...

Cases here on a pro bono basis. once they contacted me, there are a lot of really great people that wanted to give the money. i then sort of explained to them it is just not that easy. you can't just give people money here necessarily for something like this. what needs to occur is that there needs to be another jerga that takes place that in is essence an extradition proceeding that appeals the first jerga which has already given her hand in marriage. in order for this to happen, i was happy to help, i have a six-year-old daughter, i was a six-year-old girl. obviously this story is just somet...