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Meet BEBE
Exclusive: The Secret Shelters
That Protect Afghan Women
Seventeen-year-old
Bebe tells "World News"' Diane Sawyer about
how her face was mutilated by her Taliban husband for
running away to escape his beatings. She and other battered woman have sought
refuge in a secret women's shelter in Afghanistan.
(ABC News)
Despite Her Scars, Bebe
Likes to Sing
"Men want their daughters
educated. They beg us all the time. Build schools for our daughters, we want
our daughters to go to school. They've learned the price of ignorance and
illiteracy," Hyneman said.
That price is starkly visible on
Bebe's face and in her behavior. She keeps a hand in front of her, and looks
away when she speaks.
When first treated at the U.S. base,
Bebe was so modest and shy that she didn't want to show her facial wounds to
the male doctor.
"At one point she began
screaming, not very pleased with the male presence," Lewis said. The
doctor had to rely on Clark and other female aides to clean her wounds and
assess the damage.
Bebe recuperated at the U.S. base for
2 1/2 months, slowly letting out details of her ordeal, slowly regaining trust
and emerging from her shell. Doctors in the U.S. have offered their services to
help reconstruct her face.