Escaped Yazidi Girls Ashamed to Return Home After ISIS Used Them as Sex Slaves

Young women and girls take captive and used as sex slaves by Islamic State militants are now having secret abortions to avoid being alienated by their communities, a new report has revealed.

In September, ISIS militants abducted between 1,500 and 4,000 women and children from the Christian and Yazidi community, according to the Human Rights Watch. Because they viewed the females as “spoils of war,” the fighters reportedly felt entitled to use them as sex slaves.

“When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled,” said Christian author and Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer.

“[However] Islam avoids the appearance of impropriety, declaring that the taking of these sex slaves does not constitute adultery if the women are already married, for their marriages are ended at the moment of their capture,” he added.

According to the Sunday Times, some Kurdish doctors are now performing illegal abortions and hymen surgeries on girls who have been able to escape in an attempt to reverse signs of sexual abuse. One Yazidi business man, who is helping to “re-kidnap” captured girls and bring them back to their homes, revealed that many victims, some as young as eight, feel deeply ashamed about the rape they have undergone. (Read more from “Escaped Yazidi Girls Ashamed to Return Home After ISIS Used Them as Sex Slaves, Undergo Secret Abortion” HERE)

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