My whole family except one brother was taken at night.

They brought us to a school and took our belongings - phones, money, gold, everything.

They put us women and children on a bus and we were taken to Mosul.

I was sold to a man from Albania.

He shared a house with five other men and I became the group's slave.

I was forced to clean, to pray like a Muslim, and to have sex with all of them.

They kept me for four months.

They then sold me to a family in Syria where I became a nanny for their children.

After two months I decided to escape.

I covered myself in a black chador and left the house.

On the way I asked for help from some people on the street. I was lucky.

They took me to their house and helped me call my brother.

My brother managed to get ransom money from an NGO and I was smuggled to Turkey.

My family is still missing.

-Shireevn

 


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