Nine-year-old sex slave made pregnant by 10 ISIS militants raping her

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’.

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.

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 Kurdish soldier after their release near Kirkuk, northern Iraq

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.

 

Relief: A newly released Yazidi woman reacts upon her arrival in the village of Himera, southwest of Kirkuk, after she and hundreds of other Yazidis had been held captive since last summer

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.

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.’