“It is true that she tortured me alone, but as a Yazidi girl when she violated me, she violated all the Yazidis,” she said. “They felt the pain when I was in prison. It is important for all the Yazidis for a Daesh [IS fighter] to be placed in prison.”
They later moved to Mosul, in Iraq — and in April 2016, Nadine’s husband brought the enslaved Yazidi woman to live with the family. Since her abduction by the Islamic State in 2014, she had been forced into domestic and sexual slavery. Slaves were often sold or transferred from one owner to another.Article contentDuring this time, “the man regularly raped and beat the woman, which Nadine K. knew,” prosecutors argued.
Rasho was able to return to her family in 2019 — almost five years after she was first imprisoned by the Islamic State group. The court found that she “is still suffering considerably from the consequences of the crimes committed against her.”Article content “We have reached these milestones because of the bravery of survivors, like my client, who were raped and enslaved by ISIS but were determined to face their abusers in the dock,” she said in a statement.