A 9-year-old girl from a minority group in Iraq is pregnant
after being raped by at least 10 different men with the
Islamic State group.
According to DailyExpressUK, the young girl was seen by aid
workers in a refugee camp in Iraq after she and hundreds of
others were freed after being held captive by the group for
more than eight months.
The girl was one of 216 people from the ethnic and religious
minority community known as Yazidis released by the
Islamic State group, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Those freed tended to be
elderly, infirm or young, and many were in poor health, an
Iraqi Kurdish commander said. They appeared to have been
abused and neglected.
"Even a cesarean section is dangerous," Yousif Daoud, an
aid worker, said of the options for the 9-year-old girl to
give birth.
"The abuse she has suffered left her mentally and
physically traumatized."
In August, when the Islamic State group launched an assault
on Iraq's Yazidi community, its fighters kidnapped hundreds
of Yazidi women and reportedly took them to Syria. A
subsequent report by the U.S. State Department said 1,500
to 4,000 women had been abducted and that they were
being raped, forced into marriage and tortured.
Yazidis are neither Muslim nor Christian but instead practice
an ancient and unique faith. The Islamic State group still
regards them as infidels.
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