A mother's heart was broken after learning that her 20-year-old daughter was an Islamic State (ISIS) sympathiser and had eloped to Syria with a jihadist.
Shakhla Bochkaryova, 41, said she and her daughter Fatima Dzhafarova had been very close growing up, but everything changed when she went to university as a scholarship student in her home city of Surgut in Siberia, Russia, and met her "recruiter" Abdullah, according to Express UK.
She said she does not expect to see her daughter again, but she is still hoping against hope that her daughter, who takes great pride in the way she looks and dresses, will not engage in any horrific killings.
"If she lives with a recruiter, she already knows too much. They wouldn't let her leave alive. A bullet, that's the price of her life," said Shakhla. "As painful as it is, I know I will never see her again."
"I will simply be beside myself if she takes someone else's life," she said. "It's better not to live than to be the mother of a terrorist."
Fatima sparked outrage especially among Russians after she lauded her "brothers" on her social media page for staging the Paris terror attacks and downing the Russian tourist jet over Sinai.
People slammed her as "scum" and an "ISIS whore," and several even told her to "burn in hell" for the things she said.
Even her own mother could not deny the harsh things people are saying against her daughter. "You realise what a monster you gave birth to. It is hard for any mother. Of course, no mother will admit that her child is a monster. But if you're honest, yes, we gave birth to these monsters," she reflected.
Shakhla said she refused when Fatima's recruiter asked for her daughter's hand in marriage. The man, whom she named Abdullah, said he already had three wives and had three children with each of them.
"He told me he loved Fatima, and she loved him," she said. "One of his wives was pregnant when he wanted to marry my daughter."
She tried desperately to talk her daughter out of the union, even chaining her to a radiator at some point. But Fatima's mind was set.
"She told me: 'Our brothers will come and kill those like you, infidels. They'll cut heads with knives. And you know, my heart won't miss a beat,'" shared Shakhla. "I looked at her and I could no longer see my child. She was simply a shell of my daughter, no soul, no thoughts, no heart."
