Shock: Kids as Young as 8 Raped by ISIS Fighters Who ‘Pick Names of Victims in a Lottery’

Reports have surfaced indicating that ISIS fighters raped children as young as eight years old after picking their victims names in a lottery.

Human Rights Watch conducted a study to measure the destruction ISIS was having on other communities. In one particular case, a 12-year-old was beaten and raped by seven different ISIS soldiers after being taken from her home.

Human Rights Watch was alerted to the incident after the young girl escaped after being assaulted. She told them she was kidnapped, along with seven other family members, when ISIS fighters attacked their village last August.

The Islamic State has attacked more than 40,000 others from the Yazidis religious community, raping and torturing the women and children. Some women were forced to marry soldiers while others were taken as slaves, only later to be let go and abandoned. Many are now returning home to their families pregnant and ashamed.

The soldiers would partake in a sickening process in which the men would “draft” the women they liked best to abuse and rape.

“I told him not to touch me and begged him to let me go,” the 12-year-old said of the soldier who selected her.

“I was a young girl, and I asked him, ‘What do you want from me?’ He spent three days having sex with me.”

Another girl, identified as Rashida, 31, spoke of the lottery process and how her and several other girls attempted to commit suicide to avoid being terrorized.

“Later that day they made a lottery of our names and started to choose women by drawing out the names,” she said. “The man who selected me, Abu Ghufran, forced me to bathe but while I was in the bathroom I tried to kill myself.”

The traumatized girl added, “I had found some poison in the house, and took it with me to the bathroom. I knew it was toxic because of its smell. I distributed it to the rest of the girls and we each mixed some with water in the bathroom and drank it. None of us died but we all got sick.”

The acts constitute “war crimes,” according to Human Rights Watch, who have more than 20 personal accounts from women who have been abandoned or managed to escape. The group is now attempting to help the women and children get medical and psychological treatment, according to Daily Mail.

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