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Palestinian woman escapes father's dark captivity (AP)

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Baraa Melhem, 20, stands in her room at her mother's house in the West Bank village of Qalandia, near Ramallah, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.A Palestinian woman was imprisoned for nine years in a bathroom by her father, beaten, barely fed and only let out at night, a social worker and police said Monday. Authorities said Melhem was in her early twenties and that she was initially locked up when she was between 10 and 12 years old. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

AP - A young Palestinian woman who was imprisoned for 10 years in a series of dark rooms by her father said Monday she survived the ordeal by listening to the radio, dreaming of seeing sunshine again and finding small pleasure in an apple she was fed each day.




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