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IN PHOTO: Members of the minority Yazidi sect who were newly released embrace each other on the outskirts of Kirkuk April 8, 2015. More than 200 elderly and infirm Yazidis were freed on Wednesday by Islamic State militants who had been holding them captive since overruning their villages in northwestern Iraq last summer. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed REUTERS/Ako Rasheed

A 9-year-old Yazidi girl horrifically and cruelly raped by a gang of 10 ISIS Daesh fighters has gotten pregnant. She was one of the 40,000 people the crazy extremists took at gunpoint in August 2014.

Yousif Daoud, a Canadian-based aid worker who recently returned from Iraq, told Toronto Star many of the thousands of girls and women who have been raped, tortured, forcibly married and enslaved were discarded and have found their way back to their families. But it’s a bittersweet return, for most of them are battered, broken, humiliated and worse, several are pregnant.

Daoud, not his real name, explaining he needs to go under a pseudonym to avoid losing the trust of the secretive religious sect, said among the pregnant was a young 9-year-old who “could die if she delivers the baby.” He explained her frail and young body won’t be even able to withstand a caesarean section because the abuse she has suffered “left her mentally and physically traumatized.”

Her tormentors and rapists were front-line fighters or suicide bombers who are given girls as a reward, Daoud said. “She was sexually abused by no fewer than 10 men.”

That the young but pregnant little girl was sent back to the community wasn’t just because the crazy ISIS Daesh already tired of her. They sent her back to further cripple the spirit of the Yazidi community, a close-knit, conservative minority with roots in several ancient religions, believe in the purity of their line.

Yazidi men earlier said they would still marry their women whom the ISIS fighters have released, presumed to counter the psychological impacts of the madmen’s unwanted attacks. But Daoud said the Yazidi men could have second thoughts on accepting, much more marrying, women who have been impregnated. “Sending back those girls and women is a way of shaming the whole community,” he said. The Yazidis highly believe in the purity of their line.

It’s been reported that many of the pregnant women resort to abortions, others to much dangerous methods. Some committed suicide.

“I don’t know what the future would be for their babies,” Daoud said. “The girls and women don’t want them. They have suffered so much they just want to forget. If they are married, their husbands won’t take them back if they are pregnant. And it’s clear that the babies will never be accepted.”

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