CBS: Teen Girls Leaving Home To Marry and Live with ISIS Fighters

D'AGATA: "When these young women run away we do not know for sure if they are leaving to fight, or leaving to marry. But we do know they are leaving good homes and shock loved ones behind."

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MOHAMED: "Yusra, we are missing you. If you are watching this, please contact us. You are not in any trouble and we are not angry with you. We just want you back home with us."

D'AGATA (voice-over): "Home, for 15-year-old Yusra Hussien is the Somali community in western England. But since she disappeared last month, they have been feared she may become one of the growing number of teenage girls making the journey to Iraq and Syria to joining ISIS fighters. Steven Pomerantz is the former chief of counter-terrorism at the FBI. He thinks young Muslim girls are being lured to jihad as a way of giving meaning to their lives."

POMERANTZ: "They are also looking for excitement, they are looking for adventure. They are looking for social acceptance."

D'AGATA (voice-over): "ISIS recruitment message is sleek, well produced and effective, targeting impressionable teenagers often feeling they don't quite fit in with the society around them, calling on them to fight. But for young women, it's not just the battle that back in."

POMERANTZ: "Becoming wives of fighters seems to be a common thing to take part in ISIL activities. In that way, by marrying and producing children, jihadist children, or becoming a part of themselves."

D'AGATA (voice-over): "Asia Saidi, 15-year-old French girl was caught by her parents while trying to flee the country for Syria. These two teenagers from Austria did manage to make the trip. Recent reports suggest one of them may have already died in Syria."

POMERANTZ: "They see, they hear, they hear the message, they hear the appeal, and they are susceptible to it. So again, it's a variety of magazines that are online, web sites that they can go to. So there is no shortage of message."

D'AGATA (voice-over): "And it is a message that terrified family of Yushra Hoseein can only hope their missing daughter never received."

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D'AGATA: "One women who appears to have fallen for that message, American Shannon Conley, the Colorado teenager arrested in Denver trying to make a way to Syria. Last month she pleaded guilty of the terrorism charges, but her lawyer said that her arrest may have saved her life. "