Defiant ISIS sex slave told hardline Sharia court ‘cut off one foot then I will escape with the other’
Lamiya Haji Bashar - blown up and disfigured in one escape attempt - risked life and limb to flee her brutal captors
A BRAVE teen has told how she risked life and limb to escape the clutches of ruthless ISIS jihadis after being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery in Iraq.
Lamiya Haji Bashar - disfigured in one escape bid - revealed how she even stood up to a ruthless Sharia court judge after ended up in the dock for repeatedly trying to flee.
"He said that either they must kill me or cut off my foot to stop me escaping," Lamiya told the
"I told him that if you cut off one foot then I will escape with the other. I told the judge I would never give up. So they replied they would keep on torturing me if I tried to escape."
Lamiya, 18, was one of an estimated 3,000 Yazidi women and girls held as sex slaves by the Islamic jihadis.
She finally escaped on her fifth attempt - but it came at a terrible cost.
As her sick former captors pursued her towards government-controlled territory, a landmine exploded killing her companions eight-year-old Almas and Katherine, 20.
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The explosion left Lamiya blind in her right eye, her face scarred by melted skin.
She said: "I managed in the end, thanks to God, I managed to get away from those infidels.
"Even if I had lost both eyes, it would have been worth it, because I have survived them."
Lamiya was abducted from the village of Kocho, near the town of Sinjar, in the summer of 2014.
Her parents are presumed dead.
During her time trapped in Syria and northern Iraq, Lamiya saw children sold to old men as sex slaves, and she was forced to help make suicide bombs.
One time Lamiya was thrown into a room to be gang-raped by 40 fanatics.
"These men were more than monsters. That’s why I stayed strong, because I wanted to challenge the life they gave me."
Somewhere, she said, her nine-year-old sister Mayada remains captive. One photo she managed to send to the family shows the little girl standing in front of an ISIS flag.
Five other sisters all managed to escape and later were relocated to Germany. A younger brother, kept for months in an ISIS training camp in Mosul, also slipped away and is now staying with other relatives in Dahuk, a city in the Iraqi Kurdish region.
Lamiya said her first "owner" was an Iraqi ISIS commander who went by the name Abu Mansour in the city of Raqqa, the de-facto ISIS capital deep in Syria.
He brutalised her, often keeping her handcuffed.
She tried to run away twice but was caught, beaten and raped repeatedly. After a month, she said, she was sold to another ISIS extremist in Mosul.
After she spent two months with him, she was sold again, this time to a bomb-maker who Lamiya said forced her to help him make suicide vests and car bombs.
"I tried to escape from him," she said. "And he captured me, too, and he beat me."
When the bomb-maker grew bored with her, she was handed over to an ISIS doctor in Hawija, a small Iraqi town. She said the doctor, who was the ISIS head of the town hospital, also abused her.
From there, after more than a year, she managed to contact her relatives in secret.