Young Girl Makes Daring Escape From ISIS Captors By Drugging Their Tea

#1 A young girl who was held as a slave by ISIS militants reportedly made a daring escape, after slipping sleeping pills into her captors’ tea.

#2 The 12-year-old girl was a member of the Kurdish Yazidi community and was being held captive along with her 17-year-old aunt.

#3 The girl was being held by the militants with her 17-year-old aunt, but by drugging them into a deep sleep, both women managed to escape.

They then fled to the safety of a nearby Kurdish-held territory.

#4 The story was confirmed by Vian Dakhil, the sole Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament,

who has been previously praised for raising awareness of the group's plight in Islamic State strongholds.

#5 She said the two girls were held at a house in Tel Afar, near Mosul, for nearly four months before they made their escape.

They originally got hold of the pills after claiming that they had trouble sleeping.

#6 The girl has since been reunited with her mother and sister but two of her siblings are still being held by militants.

#7 Dakhil explained to Kurdish outlet BasNews:

‘Then, they put the medicine in militants' tea and secured their escape after they fell asleep.'

#8 The Yazidi group are a religious minority rooted in Iraq

and have been persecuted by ISIS since 2014 when fighters massacred hundreds at their homeland of Mount Sinjar.

#9 In addition to killing Yazidi men,

the UN believe ISIS are holding around 3,500 women and children as slaves in horrific conditions, often deprived of food and water.

#10 Women are subjected to sexual slavery by ISIS,

something they justify on account of the group not being Muslim.

#11 Girls as young as 12 are sold for sex, or given to fighters as rewards.

#12 Those who refuse to submit are often killed, in addition to older women who ISIS feel serve them no use.

#13 A Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official Mamuzini from Mosul told BasNews:

'At least 250 girls have so far been executed by IS for refusing to accept the practice of sexual jihad, and sometimes the families of the girls were also executed for rejecting to submit to IS's request.'