The Girl Who Escaped ISIS, Tells Harrowing Account

At the age of 18, Farida Khalad dreamed of becoming a teacher in her small village located in Northern Iraq. What she did not know was her dream would turn into a nightmare the day she was captured by ISIS and sold as a sex slave. 

Farida has escaped the clutches of the Islamic State and is now telling her story in a memoir called The Girl Who Beat ISIS. 

German author and journalist Andrea C. Hoffman captures the harrowing account of Farida's personal journey, reports The Guardian.

Farida talks about the day jihadist stormed the village and captured her and her fellow Yazidis. 

The villagers were told to convert to Islam or die and some were killed, including Farida's father and oldest brother.  

CBN News Chris Mitchell spoke to 19-year-old "Nazda" about her escape from ISIS.

Farida recalled that the unmarried women and girls, including her best friend Evin were loaded onto a bus at gunpoint. 

Their destination--a human market in Raqqa, where they were sold as sex slaves. 

"Neither Evin nor I had a precise idea of what {rape} actually meant," Farida said in the memoir. "All we knew is that we mustn't in any circumstances allow them to touch our bodies. If we failed to prevent them from doing that our entire families would be dishonored."

But Farida was raped, countless times. She kicked, punched, screamed, and attempted to run in order to escape the ritualized sex practice of the jihadist. She even tried to take her own life, but it only ended with her being severely punished.

This did not stop her fight, she continued to struggle on each occasion, when her "owner" would rape her. 

In the account, Farida and Hoffman described how she escaped one day after her room door was left unlock.

She grabbed five other girls who were in her care and fled to the Syrian Desert. 

But the welcome party that awaited at the refugee camp in Kurdistan was cold and cruel. 

CBN News Reporter Heather Sells spoke with Victor Marx about his ministry to Iraqi women who have suffered at the hands of ISIS.

The escapees were stigmatized by their community and shamed for their inability to stop the rapes and the resulting "dishonor" to their families. 

But Farida is not letting that stop her from sharing her testimony. Her book will be released July 7th.