Kayla Mueller Was An ISIS Sex Slave, Former Yazidi Captive Claims

Kayla Mueller was taken as a “secret bride” of an ISIS leader, according to a Yazidi woman who said she was kidnapped and used as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s personal sex slave.

During an interview with the Daily Mail, Muna, 16, the alleged ISIS sex slave said that Islamic State militants rippled out the fingernails of Kayla Mueller. The Yazidi woman also stated that al-Baghdadi told the American hostage that he would take her as his bride “by force.”

According to Muna, the ISIS leader was worried that his other wives would find out about the 26-year-old American aid worker becoming his wife and kept her prisoner inside the home of his deputy, Abu Syaff, the Florida News Times reports.

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Sayaff and Kayla Mueller were both allegedly killed during an airstrike on his property earlier this year. The ISIS sex slave also said that she was picked from a group of 61 other Yazidi women and girls ranging in age from nine to 22. Muna added that she and the others were among the refugees taken hostage from Mont Sinjar last year.

According to Muna, the ISIS slave market was held at the “white palace,” a Christian building in Mosul. She added that the average age of the “slaves” sold to the Islamic State was 15.

Al-Baghdadi lived in a two-story house with three of his wives and various children, Muna claimed.

“The wives were always worse than Baghdadi,” the former Yazidi captive said. “They were always telling the children that they were lazy and beating them.”

Muna said that when Baghdadi started the process of converting her to Islam, she was shown the James Foley beheading video. When she was in the village of Raqqa, the ISIS leader allegedly tried to brainwash the Yazidi sex slaves and told them that his Islamic State fighters had killed their husbands, fathers, and brothers.

After being moved to Halab, Muna said she tried to escape but was captured. She said that she was beaten with a belt, cables, wooden sticks, and a garden hoe.

Muna said she met Kayla Mueller after being transferred to a female prison. The American aid worker was taken captive in 2013 after she left a base in Turkey for a brief visit to a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Syria. She and her Syrian boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, a photographer, were kidnapped after an ambush by armed militants. Akhani, a Sunni Muslim, was ultimately released by the ISIS group.

The Yazidi sex slave said that Baghdadi repeatedly raped Mueller in front of her.

“She was afraid and she didn’t resist as he would beat her,” Muna maintains. “I saw him rape her three or four times and they told us that anybody who runs away, including Kayla, would be killed. Kayla did not know he was the Caliph, but she knew he was important.”

Muna was able to escape last October. She said one evening she and another woman told Kayla that they were planning to run away. Mueller allegedly reminded Muna that she was beaten and caught last time and cautioned that this time, she might be killed.

“Susan and I insisted on running away and told Kayla to come with us. But she said her friend [James Foley] had already been beheaded and she feared suffering the same fate,” Muna said.

The Yazidi captive was able to make it to a safe home about three hours from where she was kept. Kurdish forces helped her reach safety and reunited her with her brother.

When asked about the death of Kayla Mueller, Muna said, “I was so sad, but I don’t believe she was killed in an airstrike. I would tell her parents the whole story about Kayla. She was always saying that if she gets released she will take me to her home to meet them. I would tell them that she was such as close friend to me – more than a sister. I loved Kayla.”

U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly spoken with Muna about Kayla Mueller and her time spent as an ISIS captive.

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