In a rare public appeal, the mother of ISIS captive Steven Sotloff made a direct plea to the terrorist group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, asking him not to punish her son for the actions of the U.S. government.
"I ask you to please release my child," Shirley Sotloff said in a video message broadcast by Al Arabiya Network today.
Her son, a freelance journalist, appeared in an ISIS video showing the decapitation of American journalist James Foley.
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