ISIS bride from Alabama says she wants US to pay for her therapy

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The American ISIS bride who wants to come home to the US has told how she wants the government to pay for her to undergo therapy if it allows her to return but she does not want to go to jail.

Hoda Muthana, 24, spoke on Wednesday in an interview with ABC News, her first since fleeing the terror group three weeks ago, from a refugee camp in northern Syria.

With her 18-month-old son balanced on her lap, she said she had given up the extremist 'ideology' that convinced her to leave her family and that she wanted to be welcomed home by the American people.

'I'm a normal human being who has been manipulated,' Hoda, who was 20 when she fled, said.

'I hope America doesn't think I am a threat to them and I hope they accept me...I hope they excuse me because of how young and ignorant I was.

'I can tell them that now I have changed, now I am a mother, I have none of the ideology and hopefully everyone will see it when I get back.'

Asked what she would expect as a reasonable form of punishment for joining the terror group and calling for bloodshed in the US on social media, she answered: 'Maybe therapy lessons, maybe a process that will ensure us that we'll never do this again.

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