RUKMINI CALLIMACHI:
What happened is they were initially taken to a series of, if you will, holding pens. Most of them were in the city of Mosul inside the Galaxy Wedding Hall, inside the Ministry of Youth, inside a former prison.
And the women say that they arrived at these enormous halls. They were already outfitted with plates, with accoutrements, with food, so they had planned to put large numbers of people there. And they — very soon after, ISIS fighters showed up, and they began doing a very detailed survey of the people in their possession. The women were asked to give their first, middle and last name, their village, their marital status, the number of children that they have.
And then they were asked incredibly personal questions, such as, how long ago did you have your last period? And they then divined from this that the fighters were trying to figure out if they were pregnant or not, because there is a Sharia ruling about not being able to have sex with a pregnant slave.
And from there, the women were further separated into young and old, beautiful and unattractive. And, in batches, they were taken away, and then bought and then further sold to fighters, who used them as sex slaves.
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