Yazidi woman held as sex slave for three months by ISIS and gang raped

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Brave: Nadia Murad Basee was treated as a s*x slave for three months

A young Yazidi woman who was tortured and treated as a s*x slave for three months by ISIS fighters has bravely revealed her horrific ordeal.

"Rape was used to destroy women and girls and to guarantee that these women could never lead a normal life again," Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 21, told the UN Security Council.

The young woman, who was abducted in August last year from her village in Iraq, added: "Islamic State has made Yazidi women into flesh to be trafficked in".

Nadia described her horrific ordeal, saying how she was taken by bus to a building in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, where thousands of Yazidi women and children were exchanged by militants as gifts.

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