(CNN) -- Last year, people around the world were outraged when they heard the story of Sahar Gul.
The Afghan teen was
married off at 13. She said her husband, a member of the Afghan Army,
raped her. Enraged because she didn't immediately get pregnant, her
in-laws locked her in a basement for months, torturing her with hot
pokers and ripping out her nails. Ultimately, she said, they wanted to
force her into prostitution as punishment for failing her obligation as a
woman.
"They told me to go to
the basement because there were some guests coming to the house," she
told CNN. "When I went there they came in and tied my hands and feet and
pulled me upwards from above. They brought very little food for me.
"While going to the
bathroom they used to beat me a lot. I was crying all this time," she
said. "When they put electric shocks on my feet, I felt like I was going
to die at that moment. I screamed and that's how our neighbors realized
there was something happening. For one day and night I was unconscious,
feeling dead."
Neighbors heard her cries and called authorities, who
rescued the teenager in December.
Last weekend, Gul, now
14, trembled as she stood in court and listened to a Kabul judge hand
down sentences to three of her attackers.
They each got 10 years. Her husband is still being sought.
They hurt my eyes and pulled out my nail and hair, and the same should be done to them
Sahar Gul
"Ten years is not enough.
They should have been given 50 years," the teenager told CNN
journalists, who visited her recently in an Afghanistan safe house where
more than a dozen other women are being counseled after experiencing
horrific treatment.
"They should be punished
in the prison. They hurt my eyes and pulled out my nail and hair, and
the same should be done to them. whatever they did to me, the same
should be done to them," she said.
