I think this letter is 100% bogus. A man who would brutally beat his pregnant teenage daughter doesn't do something like that out of nowhere. Brutes like that preside over chaotic, unhappy households and a teenager living in such a household would not be the type of naive girl who would take a friend's middle class mother's advice about approaching her father. A man who would beat his pregnant daughter would have beaten her before she was pregnant, too, and his daughter would be far more likely to run away than to confront her father. This letter is a fraud and either the letter writer or Abby herself is a liar.
No, he is normally out of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia...close to nowhere, but not out of nowhere.