'Dragged by hair and sold for €20 at markets' - Western 'Islamic State' converts buying girls as young as 12 for sex slavery

 

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Published 22/12/2014 | 10:54

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Western 'Islamic State' converts are among foreign fighters buying women and girls as young as twelve years of age for the equivalent of €20 for sex slavery.

The ‘Islamic State’ terrorist group have kidnapped and forced hundreds, possibly thousands, of young girls into sex slavery.

Girls as young as 12 years of age are being sold for the equivalent of €20, according to a report in The Times today.

Young girls and their mothers are being seized in what is believed to be the biggest case of enslavement in this century, and Western converts who have travelled to fight with the terror group Isis are among the men buying the girls.

The women who are torn from their families are being classified according to their age, their education and their marital status. They are then transported to ‘sorting centres’ and traded openly at markets run by the terrorism group.

One activist and former Yazidi MP was told of two foreign fighters from Australia who bought a 'group of girls'.

A child from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sits on the ground at Bajed Kadal refugee camp, southwest of Dohuk province

“I have a case of one escapee who was one of a group of girls bought and raped by two Australian brothers from Isis,” activist and former MP Amena Saeed said.

“These were not Australians of Islamic origin – these are white-skinned, blonde-haired Australians, converts.”

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One 19-year-old woman described the moment she was ‘chosen’ as a sex slave.

“My mother started screaming and begging for mercy as the Daesh [Isis] fighters told my sister and me to join the group of younger women specially selected.

“But they tore us from her grasp, I saw other women in the building being dragged out to waiting lorries by their hair.”

This woman, who is identified by ‘Girl B’ for the article, and her 14-year-old sister are among several Yazidi women who have managed to escape since they were seized from the town of Sinjar in August.

The girls’ ordeal will be documented in a report released tomorrow by Amnesty International, ‘Escape from hell – Torture, sexual slavery in Islamic State captivity in Iraq’.

The group have also published a guide on permissible practices with the girls and women and how to punish them.

Read more: Isis releases 'abhorrent' sex slaves leaflet with tips on taking, punishing and raping captives


Sex with pre-pubescent girls is allowed under certain circumstances.

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