For these women the Australian men were terrifying.
They enslaved them for months leaving them frightened they would be forced to marry the men.
They allowed their children to beat them and torture them.
They threatened them with rape and tried to force them to change their religion.
The women have now spoken out, still too scared to reveal their names – petrified the Australian men will come back for them.
The women from the Yazidi religious minority in northern Iraq say they were kidnapped by Australian jihadists Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar last year.
They have told the ABC that the wanted terrorists would beat them and “after sleeping with them for one night, they’d sell them to someone else”.
The four women said they were kept captive in a room on the second floor of a house on the outskirts of the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
Khaled Sharrouf lived with his wife, three sons and daughters – and Mohamed Elomar lived alone on the first floor.
Two sisters try to take their lives to avoid sex slavery.
One of the women, Layla, said Sharrouf demanded they convert to Islam.
“He tried to ban us from crying and showing our sadness,” she said.
“He threatened to sell us if we did. He said, ‘Why are you sad? Forget about your home and family. This is your home and we are your family now. Forget about your gods, for good, because we have killed them all’.
The women say that the terrorists bought them from a slave market after they were kidnapped in Iraq and taken into Syria last year.
They told the ABC’s 7.30 that that Sharrouf threatened to kill her.
“At night he was taking a girl downstairs, and when the girl returned she’d tell us, ‘he told me you have to marry me or else I will sell you, and if you say anything to my wife I will sell you or kill you’,” she said.
They said that while none of them were raped, Elomar took one of their friends away and either raping her or threatened to rape her.
“One of my friends was with us all the day but he was taking her by force at night,” Layla said.
News Limited reports that last year Elomar tweeted he had “1 of 7 Yehzidi slave girls for sale” at $2500 each.
“Don’t worry brothers she won’t disappoint you,”
The women identified the men as their captors pointing to a series of mugshots
“We were so afraid they would force us to marry them,” she said.
“And when they were going to battle they’d take knives and other tools to cut off the heads of those they fight.”
Another woman, Nazdar, that a friends told her she was threatened she must marry the terrorist or he would sell her.
“She told me, ‘he said that I must marry him or else he is going to sell me’. And every day he was bringing people to his home offering to sell them my friend.”
The women told 7.30 that Sharrouf forced them to cook and clean for his five children.
“His children were treating us badly,” one woman, Ghazala said.
“They had knives and cell phones saying that they will take videos while cutting off our heads because we follow a different religion.”
Last year Sharrouf posted an image online of his son holding a severed head and a submachine gun.
In 2005 he was charged, along with eight other Sydney men, over the biggest terrorism plot in Australian history.
He was found unfit to plead due to severve schizophrenia.
Mohammed Elomar a boxer Sydney has made social media infamy after posing proudly with the severed heads of Syrian soldiers and participating in mass executions in Iraq.
In July last year the Australian Federal Police announced it had issued arrest warrants for Mohammed Elomar and Khaled Sharrouf.
The women – who have now escaped the men living in a refugee camp in Northern Iraq still terrified that the large Australian men will come back and take them again.
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Just cancel their passports and leave them over there in their 'motherland'. If they bring them back here they won't be executed for treason like they should be, instead they will be put in jail (in their own private quarters for their protection no doubt) where we taxpayers will have to keep them for the rest of their lives at a cost of a few hundred dollars per day.
I can't believe how EVIL these men are! This is just sick!