Christian woman's story of being an ISIS captive, sold as a sex slave and forced to convert to Islam

An Eritrean Christian woman described her life as an Islamic State captive sold into sex slavery, and how she converted to Islam just to save her life.

Ruta Fisehaye, 24, dreamed of a better life, and so she planned her escape from Eritrea to Europe. However, her plans took a backseat the night of June 2, 2015 when a group of armed men stopped a truck full of migrants bound for Europe. The captors turned out to be the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group.

"No one stopped us in the Sahara ... and the smugglers told us we shouldn't worry about Daesh," Fisehaye told Reuters in an interview. "I never expected to see an organized state like theirs in Libya," she added.

ISIS abducted the migrant women and promised them survival should they convert to Islam. Fisehaye became the first to convert after three months of captivity.

"I could see no other way out," she said.

A guard the women befriended encouraged their conversion and sprinkled their hope.

This hope shattered when ISIS' leadership changed in December, and the guard told the kidnapped women they've become slaves — turned as sex slaves, given away as gifts, sold to other militant fighters or be set free.

"Do not worry about what will happen to you in the hands of men," the guard reportedly told one of the kidnapped women and added, "Concern yourself only with where you stand with Allah,"

An Eritrean militant purchased Fisehaye in February, raped her for weeks and then lent her to another fighter.

"No one ever showed us which part of the Koran says they could turn us into slaves," said Fisehaye. "They wanted to destroy us...so much evil in their hearts."

Fisehaye managed to escape after 10 months of captivity along with several other kidnapped women just like her. She's reached Germany, where she hopes to be granted asylum.

Several other captives who managed to escape ISIS also lived to tell the harrowing tales they've suffered. One Yazidi woman and mother of four said ISIS physically and psychologically abused, tortured and treated their captives like livestock.

Yazidi girls also reportedly claim young boys as their sons or dirty their faces just to avoid being raped.

"Once you leave Eritrea, there is no going back. I did what any woman would do," Fisehaye said.