ISIS SEX SLAVE TRAGEDY: ISIS executes 19 women for refusing sex to fighters

Hundreds of women and young girls are sold and raped by ISIS militants.

ISIS has executed 19 women who refused to have sex with figters, according to a Kurdish official. The women were initially held hostage in the terrorist group's stronghold, Mosul, Iraq. "They were put to death because they refused to 'participate in the practice of sexual jihad,'" stated a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party in Mosul, Said Mimousini.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Last year, ISIS kidnapped hundreds of women and children from the Yazidi community in the Sinjar district of northern Iraq. Many of the women and young girls, some younger than 14, were made into sex slaves, often sold, forced into marriage and raped.

However, it is not known whether the 19 executed women were from the Yazidi community.

According to Mimousini, the distribution of women and issues of money and costs has caused problems within ISIS' ranks. Late last year, ISIS released a pamphlet, showing how much each female captive would cost.

In the pamphlet, women are grouped up with the cattle market in a description of a dramatic decline in revenue. The prices are listed as: Yazidi or Christian women from 40-50, $43; 30 to 40-year-olds, $75; 20 to 30-year-olds, $86; ten to 20-year-olds, $130; one to nine-year-olds, $172.

"The girls are peddled like barrels of petrol... One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men," stated Zainab Bangura to Bloomberg, with the UN's special envoy for sexual violence in conflict. "Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom."

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

Bangura explained that first the fighters get their choice, then the wealthy Middle-Easterns, and the "best looking" Yazidi virgins are sent to auctions, where they are "stripped naked and sold to the highest bidder."

"They [ISIS] have a machinery... They have a manual on how you treat these women. They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of these 'marriages' and the sale of women... They have a price list," stated Bangura.

Fortunately some young women have been able to escape ISIS' control, and shared the horrific reality many women are stuck in.

"He told me he was going to rape me that same day, however ill I made myself. He took me home, tied up my hands and feet, and raped me," expressed Bashura, 21, whose name has been changed for protection, describing her experience trying to kill herself as a sex slave. "He raped me about five times a day. My sister was barely 14 when they raped her... I could hear her screaming but I couldn't do anything as I was tied up."

Bashura and two other girls were flown to the UK by AMAR, an international charity that helps people rebuild their lives after conflict.

According to Amnesty International, hundreds, maybe even thousands, of women have "been forced to marry, 'sold' or given as 'gifts' to Islamic State fighters or their supporters - and many held as sexual slaves are girls younger than 14."

Many of the women held under ISIS control have been so severely abused, raped and dramatically traumatized that they were "driven to end their own lives," according to the Daily Mail.

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