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Nine-year-old sex slave is made pregnant by 10 ISIS militants raping her says aid worker
A nine-year-old girl is pregnant after suffering horrific sexual abuse at the hands of ISIS militants in northern Iraq, aid workers report.
The Yazidi girl has recently been released after nearly a year as a prisoner in the Islamic State, where women and young girls from the religious minority are known to be kept as 'sex slaves'.
Released: An elderly Yazidi man is being cared for by peshmerga troops while a young girl cries as she is being offered water by a Kuridsh soldier after their release near Kirkuk, northern Iraq .
Earlier this week, more than 200 Yazidi women, children and elderly were released near Kirkuk, northern Iraq after being taken by ISIS militants last June.
Fear: The 216 prisoners, including 40 children, believed they were being led to their execution, but instead, were piled onto minibuses that drove them to a handover southwest of Kirkuk .
Around 40,000 people were kidnapped at gunpoint when Islamic State fighters attacked Yazidi villages last summer.Hundreds have been able to return, either by fleeing or being set free by ISIS, and the nine-year-old is among them.
Newly released members of the Yazidi minority, including one girl with an injured leg, wait for medical help after being set free by ISIS
According to aid workers, she was 'sexually abused by no fewer than ten men', while in captivity inside the self-proclaimed caliphate.'
Most of them were front-line fighters or suicide bombers who are given girls as a reward,' Yousif Daoud, a Canadian-based aid worker told the Toronto Star.'This girl is so young she could die if she delivers a baby,' he added. '
Even a caesarian section is dangerous. The abuse she has suffered left her mentally and physically traumatized.'
Yazidi families embrace after ISIS let them go. About 40 children were among those released.
The United Nations said last month that the Islamic State may have committed genocide against the minority.
The nine-year-old was taken to Germany by a Kurdish charity earlier this week, where she is receiving medical care, the newspaper reported.
This comes after the release of 216 Yazidi prisoners who had been held captive since last summer when ISIS militants attacked their villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq.
The freed prisoners said that they had been led to believe they were being led to their execution, but instead, were piled onto a minibus that drove them to peshmerga positions.
The Yazidis, made up of women, children and the elderly, are said to be in poor health and bearing signs of abuse and neglect.
General Hiwa Abdullah, a peshmerga commander in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, said that about 40 children are among those released, some of whom were too exhausted and disoriented to speak.
No reason was given for the release of the prisoners, which took place in Himera just southwest of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad.
