This is Jocco Podcast number 98 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

They asked us to take off our headscarves and loosen any buttons to reveal our chests.

That courtyard became the marketplace where ISIS men came and chose girls they liked, though they first sent all the older women to another place and the women with babies and other children to another place.

We do not know the whereabouts of these women and that includes my mother and my sisters.

I had my period that night, but no matter how much I told him I have my period, he did not believe me.

He ordered me to strip naked in his room. Then he stuck his finger in my vagina and saw that I was indeed bleeding. Only then did he believe.

But that did not mean he left me alone. Instead, he put the air conditioner on a really high volume, said that I am to sit still in my nudity the whole night and he molested me throughout the night.

By the time morning arrived, I was frozen both physically and psychologically. Nothing mattered after that point.

I did not know I had not seen the worst of it yet. He would put on horrible sexual movies and would do all kinds of things to me.

They all had long hair and long beards, but the worst of all is their smell. I have never smelled such awful smell in my life.

They do not bathe. They feel more like beasts than human. Only Yazidi women are taken as slaves. She, a woman, they burn alive.

We saw one, she, a woman burned alive in front of us. Christian women, they leave on the condition that their family must pay a fee for ISIS for being Christian in ISIS toward territories.

And soon, women are left alone as long as they follow ISIS orders. If they do not, they are whipped and tortured.

Some of them are the wives of our captors. Some of the wives were as helpless as we were and some were very mean women who encouraged their men to rape us.

As long as a girl has some breast, she is considered a woman and that entitles them to rape her.

Some girls are as young as 10 and 11 years old. I have no past and no future at the moment.

I am stuck in my anger and pain at what ISIS did to my family, my community and myself.

I have a new behavior that I can't stop, including washing my mouth over and over again.

There are nights I wake up more than one time to wash my mouth as I remember what they did to me and how they forced themselves on me.

I am a dead person now. I have no life. I only hope that my mother comes back from capture so my life can resume.

Those are excerpts from an article that was in the New York Times by Zainab Salbi and the quotes are from Leila, which is a pseudonym who was a Yazidi woman captured by ISIS and obviously kept as a slave.

She eventually escaped and gave that interview in a camp in Erlbeel, which is in Northern Iraq, which at the time was an Iraqi government controlled city.

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