Sunday, 12 April 2015

'Nine-year-old pregnant' after being raped by at least 10 Islamic State paedophiles

Islamic State fighters and displaced Yazidi children

Hundreds of Yazidi women and children who were taken hostage by the brutal regime were released this week after more than eight months in captivity.
But volunteers in huge make-shift refugee camps have given a distressing account of trauma and abuse at the hand of the jihadist group, which continues to wage a bloody war across the region.
Charity workers said one nine-year-old girl, who was left pregnant after being raped by at least 10 different men, was so young and weak she was likely to die during childbirth.
“Even a caesarean section is dangerous,” Yousif Daoud, a Canadian-based aid worker who recently returned from the region, said.  

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“The abuse she has suffered left her mentally and physically traumatised.”
The freed group of 200 girls and women was taken hostage last summer after intense fighting in northern Iraq. 


Hundreds were killed during the fighting and estimates put the number of girls still being held by extremist fighters at up to 4,000.

Aid workers said releasing the 200-strong group of girls and women this week might have been done simply to shame them when they returned to their families. 

Islamic State fighters
“Sending back those girls and women is a way of shaming the whole community,” Mr Daoud said.
“I don’t know what the future would be for their babies.

“The girls and women don’t want them. They have suffered so much they just want to forget.
“If they are married, their husbands won’t take them back if they are pregnant. And it’s clear that the babies will never be accepted.”

There are fears that some of the pregnant women will attempt to have an abortion, but healthcare provisions are so poor that many will die in the process, aid workers claim.

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. - See more at: http://www.lailasblog.com/2015/04/9-year-old-girl-pregnant-after-being.html#sthash.NCZFJdnF.dpuf