IS 'Sex Slave' Victim Tells Of Months Of Abuse

The 25-year-old victim said her four children, aged five, six, seven and eight years old, were beaten and abused to ensure she complied with her captor's demands.

IS is known to use Yazidi women as sex slaves as they do not recognise their culture and view them as heathens.

Another woman, 22, who became pregnant while in captivity was not allowed to bury her dead child who was aged just seven months.

She was rescued, along with 30 other Yazidi men, women and children, by Kurds after being held for a year and a half.

IS extremists rarely allowed the group out of a building after the jihadists moved into Iraq's Sinjar mountains in August 2014.

Some 48 hours after being freed, Sky News met the group of eight families in a Dohuk refugee camp in a Kurdish-controlled area of northern Iraq where they had medical checks following their captivity.

They were all still traumatised from their experience and spoke of horrifying violence, physical and mental abuse, a serious lack of food (not fit for animals, they said), poor hygiene (with little access to water) and constant stress.

They had been smuggled out by a Kurdish group set up to try to track down and free some of the 3,000 Yazidis still being held by IS in Syria.

The 25-year-old, who was rescued in an operation a few months ago, said she had been the sex slave of an IS fighter called Omar.

"He abused me every day," she said.

She was also given contraceptives to ensure she didn't get pregnant and could be abused for longer.

"I cannot tell you how awful these people are. I was so worried that he would take away my children."

"They were not like humans. You cannot imagine it.

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http://news.sky.com/ By: Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, Dohuk, northern IraqNews Sky Photo: News Sky