A Yazidi teenager who was sold into slavery by ISIS but escaped has fled Germany after coming face to face with the man who abused her.
Ashwaq Ta’lo was 15 when her entire family was rounded up in the Isis attack on the traditional heartland of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq four years ago. She was eventually sold along with her sister and other young women and teenage girls, and lived with a man she knew as Abu Humam.
Eventually she contrived to give her captors the slip and made her way to Germany as a refugee, where she was reunited with her mother and several other family members.
Then one day in February, she was stopped by a man as she walked home in Stuttgart. “I froze when I looked at his face carefully,” she told Bas News, a Kurdish agency. “It was Abu Humam, with the same scary beard and ugly face. I was speechless when he started speaking in German, asking, ‘You’re Ashwaq, aren’t you?’”
Source: The Times
