Yazidi sex slave who claims she was raped by 'American ISIS jihadi' to testify

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The 20-year-old says she was kept as a sex slave by American jihadi captor
'Bazi' was abducted when ISIS fighters when overran Sinjar in Iraq in 2014
She saw she subjected to repeated depraved acts: 'They did everything'
Nightmare ended when she escaped and called her family to save her
Bazi will now testify to Congress against captor Abu Abdullah Al Amriki
Jihadi had been 'American teacher with wife and kids' until he joined ISIS

Published: 18:11 EST, 24 September 2015 | Updated: 04:23 EST, 25 September 2015

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A young woman who claims she was brutally raped by an American jihadi after she was kidnapped by ISIS is to testify in Congress.

The 20-year-old, who asked to go under the alias of Bazi, says she was kept as a sex slave for months on end by the married U.S. teacher turned ISIS fighter.

Bazi, from Yazidi, has now arrived in America to testify to Congress about her horrific ordeal at the hands of her captor Abu Abdullah Al Amriki (Abu Abdullah the American).

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A young woman who claims she was brutally raped by an American jihadi after she was kidnapped by ISIS is to testify in Congress

She told CNN she had been subjected to the depraved acts as a punishment for not being a Muslim.

'There was nothing left to do to me. They did everything,' she said.

The brave victim said her nightmare began after she was captured by fighters from the extremist group when they overran the city of Sinjar in Iraq, in August 2014.

Bazi was taken to the Syrian city of Raqqa and was to be subjected to a demeaning auction where she, and ten other girls, would be sold off as sex slaves to the highest bidder, before Abdullah decided to keep her for himself.

She told CNN that her captor had been a teacher in America and still had a wife and two children in the U.S. who he would regulatory travel back to visit. He was described as being 'very white,' with a black beard and hair.

Abdullah is among hundreds of American citizens who have gone to join the terrorist group in its strongholds of Syria and Iraq since 2013.

Using slick propaganda videos and social media, ISIS attempt to lure members by portraying how much better life purportedly is in the caliphate as compared to the corrupt West. And people attracted to ISIS' marketing run the gamut from rich to poor, educated to dropout, male to female, teenaged to middle-aged.

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Escape: ISIS stormed the Sinjar district (pictured in August) in northern Iraq last year and captured hundreds of women belonging to the Yazidi community- including Bazi

Abdullah is said to have converted to an extreme form of Islam and told his victim that everyone should either be Muslim - or die, Bazi told CNN.

'He was telling us we should go back to the Prophet's age, where we force everyone to become Muslim. Everybody should be a Muslim - either be a Muslim or die.'

She described how he would pray before and after raping her to 'cleanse' himself of the act.

'Before raping me, he would pray for like fifteen minutes or half an hour. And after that, even if it was 2am, 3am, after raping me, he would go take a shower and pray again.'

Despite her own suffering, Bazi says she was able to save another 'slave' from her fate by persuading Abdullah not to rape her but keep her as a servant.

'I told him, you do this to me, you can have me. Please don't hurt her and don't do anything to her.

'I told him to treat her as a servant for him, because he was sheikh, an emir, so he would just have her as a servant.

The young woman finally escaped after she with the help of family, after she managed to flee to a nearby shop and call them, who knew people in an underground network working to free girls and get them out of ISIS-held territory.

Human rights group Hardwired assisted her in coming to the U.S where she is planning to call on the FBI to launch an in investigation into her claims.

'I was never able to even think about getting out of there, since -- although I tried many times, all the time I was aware that I will fail. And so even now, I don't believe how did I made it.'

ISIS'S DESPICABLE 'PRICE LIST' FOR YAZIDI AND CHRISTIAN SLAVES

A translated version of the document (left) was shared online by humanitarian and peace prize winner Dr Widad Akrawi, and reads as follows:

We have received news that the demand in Women and Cattle market has sharply decreased and that will affect Islamic State revenues as well as the funding of mujahideen in the battlefield, therefore we have made some changes. Below are the prices for Yazidi and Christian women.

The price for Yazidi or Christian women between the age of 40 - 50 is $43 (£27)

$75 (48) for 30 to 40-year-olds

$86 (£55) for 20 to 30-year-olds

$130 (£83) for ten to 20-year-olds

$172 (£110) for one to nine-year-olds

Customers are allowed to purchase only three items with the exception of customers from Turkey, Syria and Gulf countries.

Dated and sealed by ISIS in Iraq October 16, 2014.

ISIS has carried out 'systematic sexual crimes' against girls from the Yazidi community since kidnapping more than 3,000 girls from their homes in northern Iraq since August last year.

Unjustly regarded as 'devil worshippers' on account of their unusual beliefs, the Yazidi have for centuries been one of the most persecuted minorities of the Middle East. Islamic extremists regard them as infidels, worthy only of being killed.

Those considered the 'most beautiful' by ISIS leaders are sent to horrendous auction houses where they are stripped naked and sold to the highest bidder.

In one sickening case, an ISIS militant used an 11-year-old Yazidi sex slave as a human shield by strapping her to the bonnet of his car while driving into battle.

The terrified girl was left screaming for her life after being tied to the windscreen of a Humvee military vehicle to protect her captor from enemy gunfire.

When she is not being paraded through war zones, the child is repeatedly raped by the fanatic, activists have revealed.

The girl is among 3,750 prisoners from the minority sect who were captured during the terror group's brutal uprising through northern Iraq last year.

Many have been sold at slave markets destined for a life of horrifying abuse at the hands of their captors.

Lawyer Khaleel al-Dakhi, who runs a group that has rescued more than 1,000 Yazidis from ISIS through a network of informers, said the girl was still being held by her captor.

He told The Sun: 'He rapes her. She told me herself over the phone.'

The group is part of a heroic underground network of resistance fighters helping women and girls to flee their captors.

Risking certain death and torture in a bid to flee their brutal oppressors, the former sex slaves spend several days making their way through Syria and Iraq to the safety of government-controlled territory.

Many of them have been subjected to appalling violence, rape and sexual abuse at the hands of ISIS fighters and commanders.

One victim, a mother-of-three named Khalida who managed to escape, told how the disabled and elderly women were separated for prisoner swaps and that virgins were also singled out.

And their fate can also be death for those who disobey.

Just last month it emerged that ISIS fanatics had executed 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters.

A Kurdish official claimed the women were being held hostage in the extremist group's stronghold of Mosul, Iraq, which the terror group seized in June last year.

Meanwhile a UN envoy investigating Islamic State's vile sex trade has said 'girls get peddled like barrels of petrol' and one can be bought by six different men.

She also verified a disturbing ISIS document which suggested the extremists sell the Yazidi and Christian women and children they have abducted, with girls aged just one to nine-years-old fetching the most money.

The brave victim said her nightmare began after she was captured by ISIS fighters when they overran the city of Sinjar in Iraq, in August 2014 (file picture)

ISIS has carried out 'systematic sexual crimes' against girls from the Yazidi community since kidnapping more than 3,000 girls from their homes in northern Iraq since August last year (file picture)

In August, the group posted disturbing images online of what they claimed were three Assyrian Christian women ISIS that they had abducted in February.

In three 'leaked' images shared on social media, the women hold pieces of paper on which their names and a date - July 27, 2015 - are written.

It is feared this means they will be sold to ISIS fighters if their families or charities do not pay ransom for their release, although no figure appears on the signs they hold.

One woman stands over her young daughter holding a sign which reads Susan Elias along with the date July 27, 2015.

The second, who is alone, is called Hannaa Assaf Youssef. The third woman is surrounded by what appears to be her own three children but the writing on the sign could not be made out accurately.

'The names resemble the family names of people in a nearby village - Tel Jazire - so it is possible that these women could be from Assyrian villages but we cannot confirm that,' a source at the Assyrian Federation of Sweden said.

Islamic State fighters have abducted and sexually abused hundreds of women from northern Iraq's Yazidi community since it raided their villages last year.

But captured Christians and Jews have enjoyed more protection from the fighters because they regard them as 'People of the Book'.

The terror group may now have changed that stance, according to a recent New York Times interview with an abused Yazidi girl.

The vile ISIS fighter who raped the 12-year-old girl allegedly told her that 'what he was about to do was not a sin' because she 'practiced a religion other than Islam'.

ISIS also made clear in a 34-page manual released by its 'Research and Fatwa Department' that sex with Christians and Jews who were 'captured in battle' was also allowed.

YAZIDI GIRL, 17, MADE PREGNANT BY ISIS JIHADI REVEALS HORROR ORDEAL

Horrifying: The teenager told how she and and her 10-year-old sister were handcuffed and taken to a hotel where other scantily dressed women and girls were auctioned off to jihadis Picture: A sex slave victim of ISIS, many of whom say they try to kill themselves so that they won't be raped again

Another Yazidi teenager has told how she and her little sister were raped daily by depraved jihadists after they were sold into slavery at an auction of virgins - as she revealed she is now pregnant with the vile extremist's baby.

The girl, who is just 17, revealed how every day of her nine-month ordeal was 'like choosing between death and death' as she was faced with beatings and sexual assaults by the ISIS militant and his team of 'bodyguards'.

The teenager told how she was gang-raped, whipped and even scalded on the thigh with boiling hot water if she didn't keep with her ISIS rapist's depraved sexual demands.

Now, three months pregnant with Al-Russiyah's baby, the girl says she gets flashbacks and nightmares about what he did to her.

The girl was bought by Al-Russiyah, originally from Chechnya, who purchased her, her 10-year-old sister and two other girls in 10 minutes.

But it was not only the prospect of what the horrors they would face once they were taken away from the auction house which left the girls distraught.

Once at their new 'home', an abhorrent daily routine from which they could not escape began.

Each morning, Al-Russiyah would strip the girls naked, then smell them and decide who he wanted to have sex with that day, she said.

After the he had made his choice, his bodyguards would select one of the remaining girls for themselves.

But the bodyguards were so rough with her that the teenager felt relief at being picked by her captor, who would 'beat her less than the other men'.

It was only when he and his bodyguards were killed in battle that she managed to successfully flee