Held as a Sex Slave by ISIS for Five Years: 'I Never Thought that One Day I Would Be Free'

ISIS hasn't been front-and-center in the news recently, but it's still a threat in many places around the world.

In Iraq, thousands of women and girls who were kidnapped when the terror group took control in 2014 have yet to be returned to their homes.

Now, families are put in the position of buying their daughters back from the brutal jihadist group.

Six years ago, Leila Taalo was kidnapped by ISIS along with her entire family. They are Yazidi, an ancient people who were brutally oppressed by ISIS when the terror group flooded into their area in Northern Iraq in 2014.

After their capture from their home in Sinjar, her family was forcibly converted to Islam. This allowed her family to live as second-class citizens for a while, working for the Islamic State mainly as herders, along with other Yazidis who were moved there.

Taalo showed journalists a room near Sinjar where she was confined with her husband.

But after some Yazidis escaped, the militants gathered all the men and took them away, never to be seen again. Many were killed and dumped into a sinkhole, where their bones can still be seen whitening in the...

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