'I have no hope' The heartbreaking story of a young mother's real-life nightmare as ISIS sex slave

Yazidi woman was kidnapped during home raid in Iraq.

Hundreds of women are tragically suffering in the hands of ISIS. One Yazidi woman has revealed her tale of heartbreaking cruelty living as the terrorists' sex slave after taken from her home during a raid in Iraq.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) -Reehan, not her real name, is a 19-year-old mother from the Khanke refugee camp in Iraq. According to the Daily Mail, Reehan unveiled the unimaginable reality of being an ISIS prisoner and how she escaped.

Last August, the young mother was abducted from her home in a village north of Sinjar. The religious extremists rounded families up and brought them to Tal Afar, 50 miles away, where the women and children were segregated from the men. Reehan was sold to a 50-year old Iraqi Turken fighter; she was then imprisoned for the next 10 months.

Reehan explained she had to allow the first captor who bought her to rape her whenever he wanted, because every time she protested her captor would beat her one-year-old baby boy in front of her. She was forced to refrain from resisting.

She insisted if not for her son, she would have already taken her own life. Her second captor raped an elderly mother and her daughter.

Reehan once questioned her rapist's principles and the reply she received was, "according to Islam," sexual trade in Yazidi women is allowed.

Finally, she decided to flee and stole a hijab. She went to a Syrian man's house and telephoned her mother who was in Dohuk. The man agreed to help her and her son cross the border, under the condition she paid him $15,000.

After two days, the man drove Reehan and her son to Fish-Khabur on the Iraqi-Syrian border, where she met with her mother.

Reehan now lives with her mother and son in the Khanke refugee camp. Her husband, father and two sisters are still in the hands of ISIS.

"I want to leave Iraq. But, I have nothing, no husband. I have no hope in [this country]," she stated.

The terrorist group has been carrying out "systematic sexual crimes" against women from the Yazidi community since the kidnapping of more than 200 women, last August.

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