Austrian teenage girls used as Islamic State sex slaves before brutal murders
Ben Brennan and Krystal Johnson
December 31, 2015, 10:44 am
Islamic State fighters used an Austrian teenager as sex slaves and a ‘gift’ for fighters before brutally murdering her with a hammer, according to new reports.
British newspaper The Sun reports Samra Kesinovic, 17, was kept in a house and used as ‘gifts’ for jihadists after they fleeing her home country with 16-year-old Sabina Selimovic to join the group.
The information reportedly comes via a Tunisian woman who says she was kept in the same house as Kesinovic.
She said the teenage was forced into sexual acts with fighters and tried to flee her captors several times before she was killed.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, (left) and Sabina Selimovic, 16, (right) fled to Syria and became ISIS poster girls. Photo: Supplied
After her final escape attempt, Kesinovic was reportedly so badly injured with a hammer that she died.
Earlier reports suggest Sabina Selimovic may have met a similar fate.
Austria’s foreign ministry has not confirmed the reports.
The news comes as it is revealed Islamic State has a special set of rules on the treatment of its female captives.
Reuters reports a document obtained by the US government spells out that fighters cannot have sex with their captives if they are menstruating or pregnant, or if they have had sex with the daughter of their captive.
Men are forbidden from having sex with captives if they have ‘given them away’ to their sons, or if they ‘own’ them jointly with another man.
Men are also not allowed to have sex with slaves owned by their wives, according to the document.
Kesinovic and Selimovic were initially used as ‘poster girls’ for the terrorist group after they travelled to Syria after being brainwashed by a radical preacher in Vienna.
The two teens were shown wearing Islamic headbands and brandishing Kalashnikov rifles surrounded by masked male jihadists in what looks like an ISIS recruitment image.
Picture: Interpol
Reports of the girls' whereabouts have been circulating since earlier in the year, with the Unites Nations reporting they received information that one of them had died.
“We received information just recently about two 15-year-old girls, of Bosnian origin, who left Austria,” Scharia said.
“Both were recruited by Islamic State. One was killed in the fighting in Syria, the other has disappeared,” reports now propose this explains Samra’s disappearance.
Reports now suggest that both Austrian women are now believed to be dead.
A UN official stated both teenagers were recruited by Islamic State and one was killed, another has disappeared. Photo: CEN
The teenagers families reported the two girls missing after they disappeared from Vienna last year, allegedly leaving a note which read:
“Don’t look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him.”
The girls allegedly flew to the Turkish capital Ankara and then into the southern Turkish region of Adana.
After that, their tracks were lost.
It is believed the two Austrian women were married to ISIL jihadists and the two couples at one point lived in the same room.
There was initial reports that Samra was pregnant, however these were later denied in an interview with a French magazine.
“Here I can really be free,” Sabina wrote in the messages sent to Paris Match via text message.
“I can practice my religion,” she also wrote
“I couldn’t do that in Vienna.”
Mirsad O., lives in Vienna and is allegedly responsible for recruiting the two young girls. Photo: Supplied
Experts claim the interview was a publicity stunt used to rebuild the image of the Islamic State due to reports the girls wanted to return home, ‘’The Telegraph’’ said.
“If they really want it to be believable, they should let them give the interview on neutral territory where it’s possible to see that they aren’t being threatened by a gun,” an Austrian security insider told ’’CEN’’ at the time.
Both Kesinovic and Selimovic were children of refugees who fled to Austria from the war in their country.
A Bosnian Islamic preacher is believed to be the one responsible for the recruitment of Samra and Sabina.
Mirsad O, known by the Islamic name of 'Ebu Tejma', allegedly brainwashed the two into joining the jihad in Raqqa.
He denies the claims.
