[Brown:] An attorney for Dennis Hastert is addressing the shocking new sexual abuse allegations surrounding the former House speaker. The details in court documents in the last 24 hour show federal prosecutors believe Hastert sexually abused at least four boys in the '60s and '70s while he was a high school wrestling coach. The disturbing revelations come just days before he is to be sentenced for financial violations. Investigators say those violations involve hush money Hastert paid to one of his accusers. Our Nick Valencia joins me now for more on this. Nick, what are Hastert's attorneys saying in light of these new allegations?
[Nick Valencia, Cnn Correspondent:] Pamela, we should start saying this is the first time we've seen Dennis Hastert mentioned specifically, these allegations of sexual molestation, child molestation. Up until now, he has not mentioned anything or said anything, addressed them, nor has his attorney. Even in this statement we received a few hours ago from Hastert's attorney, there was no admission of guilt. I'll read that statement. "Mr. Hastert acknowledges that as a young man he committed transgressions for which he is profoundly sorry. He earnestly apologizes to his former students, family, friends, previous constituents, and all others affected by the harm his actions have caused. The profound humiliation and public shaming Mr. Hastert has and will continue to experience coupled with the resulting isolation and abandonment he has endured are already significant punishment and have undoubtedly contributed to his fragile medical condition." Some would ask, what about the fragile medical condition of those he is allegedly abused 30 years ago while he was a high school wrestling coach in Illinois. These federal court documents, 26 pages, go on to say that these young men, now grown men, are still dealing with the emotional scars of having allegedly been molested by the former speaker of the House Pamela?
[Brown:] The abuse allegations are not new, but the extent of this alleged abuse is, and they details these boys, now men, give are disturbing.
[Valencia:] They are disturbing, they are stunning, they are just plain and simple disgusting, as laid out by federal prosecutors. We're about to read one of those instances. There were four young men in all, actually five, but they couldn't get testimony from the fifth young man. He died years after the alleged molestation happened, but they did get testimony from his sister. This statement, part of the court documents that I'm about to read, could be considered uncomfortable for some but we think it's important to hear. "Individual "B," who was a minor at the time, was a wrestler at Yorkville High School for the defendant, Dennis Hastert. One day during his freshman year, when Individual "B" was 14 years old, Individual "B" was alone in the locker room with Hastert after Individual "B" has worked out. Either just after he showered or while he changed by his locker, Hastert told Individual "B" to get on the table so Hastert could, quote, "loosen him up." Individual "B" lay on the table face down. The defendant started massaging him. Defendant had Individual "B" turn over so he was lying face up on the table. Hastert then performed a sexual act on the teenager." Much of these allegations, these accusations, I should say, listed out in these court documents, start the same way. In a similar case, Hastert offers to massage these teenagers who were wrestlers for him on this high school team and that it evolved into an alleged sexual misconduct Pamela?
[Brown:] So these men have now come forward, they've testified to federal prosecutors, prosecutors clearly believe them, but why aren't there any charges on that front? Is it because of statute of limitations?
[Valencia:] Yeah. The statute of limitations is past. It happened 30 years ago. And prosecutors aren't going after him for this. But they think it's germane to him breaking banking laws. If you remember, he was taking out $50,000 increments at a time. That drew the attention of the feds. The FBI and IRS started to investigate. Hastert had initially said he was the victim of extortion. When they recorded conversations between one of these individuals and Mr. Hastert, they realized that it was no extortion attempt but really hush money, as the feds have put it. They think that the sentencing should reflect the seriousness of the crimes. That's why these documents have come out, since Hastert is schedule to be sentenced April 27th. And they believe that the sentence of that should fit the crime. Right now, it's only zero to six months. That's what the defense is asking for. Jail time is not mentioned. But it's clear the federal prosecutors are laying out their case that they're trying to get Mr. Hastert behind bars Pamela?
[Brown:] All right. Nick Valencia, thank you for that report.
[Valencia:] You bet.
[Brown:] The brutality of ISIS is in full display in Iraq. Families unable to flee the terror group now say they are being used as human shields. People have been forced into their homes and held captive. Their stories will make your skin crawl. CNN's senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon, reports from Iraq Arwa?
[Arwa Damon, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] The Iraqi army has managed so far so capture a handful of villages from ISIS, Pamela, and once they did that, the people from those areas were sharing the most horrific of stories. [voice-over]: The latest arrivals at this refugee camp are not those who fled ISIS. They are those who say ISIS used them as human shields and didn't let them leave. They're from a handful of villages the Iraqi army recently recaptured from ISIS. The men are kept at the camp's mosque, a security precaution amid concerns ISIS is in the village. "Isis put my family into each home in the middle of the village," Abu Sarat recalled. Like many here, he does not want his identity revealed. He still has loved ones at the mercy of ISIS and has already witnessed and lost too much. Abu and his family could hear the army's advance and hoped finally that they would be saved. But in the fierce clashes, Abu's younger brother was hit as he pulled his niece away from the window. "He shouted, I am shot, get me," Abu Sarat says. The memory of that movement so painful, he can no longer control his emotions. "He said, I don't want to die. But he bled out in our arms." With us, Abu is able to leave the mosque grounds, and we head to see the rest of his family. He says they did not flee when ISIS first arrived nearly two years ago because his elderly mother could not run away, a mother who has buried her son. "What is left," she now questions. "At least God spared the rest." Their stories of life under ISIS make your skin crawl. Abu worked at a hospital in Mosul. "I was forced to keep working. He said, if you don't, I will leave your head on the hospital gate," he tells us. Once, he was stopped in the street and forced to witness a public mass execution. In another instance, on the way to the market, he says, "We saw people hanging from the electricity pole. We asked why. They said they were trying to leave. If you try to escape, this will be your fate." The women also hide their faces. But little can hide the lingering fear, the overwhelming psychological trauma or the pain. This woman says the house ISIS held her family in as the Iraqi army advanced was hit by a mortar. She was injured. Her 15-year-old son killed. Her last image of him, with blood coming out of his eyes, nose, mouth. "It's all memories," she says, before it becomes too much and she walks away. [on camera]: And concerns for the civilian population, Pamela, are only growing. When one looks towards the city of Mosul, there are potentially 1.5 million to two million people there, and in its surroundings, and ISIS could very well be intending to use them, too, as human shields.
[Brown:] So disturbing. Great report there from our Arwa Damon, an important report. We're continuing to watch live pictures from a Hillary Clinton campaign stop in Brooklyn. Stay with us. We'll be back.