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Girls fearing rape from ISIS dirty their faces to look less beautiful, reveals boy who escaped

Yazidi girls try to be less desirable by covering their faces with dirt or by claiming young boys as their sons just to escape being raped by their militant captors. An escaped teenage boy adds to the grim tales of being an Islamic State captive.

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, June 11, 2014. | Reuters/Stringer

"The girls were covering their faces with dirt, trying to make themselves less beautiful," revealed Ahmed Amin Koro in an interview with Fox News.

"But if they were caught doing that they were beaten. They were all beaten and taken away. ISIS beat us too," he added.

The 15-year-old Yazidi boy managed to escape with his little brother from the evil clutches of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) terrorist group. The lives of the religious minority tribe were disrupted when the militants laid siege on their ancestral home in Mount Sinjar in August 2014.

According to Ahmed, some of the young women pretend to be the mothers of little boys just to turn off their captors. However, a virginity test carried out by an ISIS doctor that would prove otherwise could end into beatings.

He recalled how a mother tried to save her child from being abused.

"The mom cried that her little girl was too young and she didn't know anything about marriage or sex, but they didn't care and took her anyway," he said.

Other Yazidi escaped captives have lived to tell the tale of how the young women and girls were made sex slaves and traded among the militants. Ahmed's narration painted a picture on how these desperate women try to escape their terrible fate.

Back in April, a teenage girl named Samia Sleman revealed during a United Nation conference the gruesome fate of young Yazidi women who were systematically raped and turned into sex slaves. A 49-year-old mother of four who escaped with her children, identified only as Sevi, also narrated how the militants sold them as sex slaves and treated them as if they were livestocks.

Although Ahmed and his brother are now reunited with their mother and sisters, he shares that he's not completely happy since only a third have escaped so far from the 5,000 Yazidi captives.

"For a moment, if I feel happy, my neighbors are not," Ahmed reflected.

He said, "I want to see my Dad again.

"I want to go back to Sinjar and I want to live peacefully with all my community – all of us – safe and together again," he added.