Australian Woman Who Joined ISIS Faces Abuse Allegations From Yazidi Survivor

A young woman who says she was beaten by an Australian ISIS bride and raped by the woman’s terrorist husband is calling on the Australian government to let her give evidence in court.

Aisha, a pseudonym used to protect her identity, says she was nine years old when she was enslaved and abused by a woman called ‘Umm Osama’. Investigators reportedly believe the woman was Australian citizen Hodan Abby.

Aisha identified the ‘African-looking’ woman as Umm Osama, the name Abby allegedly used while living in the ISIS-controlled territory in Syria.

Aisha was among thousands of Yazidi women and children who say they were seized from their homes in Iraq and trafficked into the ISIS caliphate in Syria.

She said she was purchased at a slave market by a man known as Abu Osama, who is believed to have been Abby’s husband. Aisha alleges that he began raping her within weeks.

“That was the hardest thing, but it was also hard when Umm Osama was beating me, when she had her ‘demons’,” Aisha told The Australian, referring to the term Osama reportedly used for his wife’s violent outbursts.

“Every time Osama raped me was so difficult. The first time, she heard me screaming in pain. Later, she asked why I was screaming. I told her it was because her husband was raping me, so she knew.”

Aisha said Abby became angry and argued with her husband, but also told the girl she was an infidel who deserved the abuse.

Aisha, now 20, said the woman ordered her to begin cleaning at 4am each day and sometimes locked her in a bathroom as punishment.

“If she was angry with me, she would pour juice or anything she could find from the refrigerator over me. She never let me shower. She would beat me while her husband raped me,” Aisha said.

“Once, I was cooking eggs and they were not made the way she wanted. She placed the hot pan on my hand. I still have the scar.”

In July, Aisha contacted the Australian Federal Police to ask whether she could provide a formal statement detailing the alleged abuse.

She has not yet been contacted. However, The Australian reports that the NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team is working with authorities in the country where Aisha lives to ensure any evidence gathered can be used in court.

Abby remains in Syria with her disabled nine-year-old daughter after the Australian government earlier this year stopped her from flying home under a Temporary Exclusion Order.

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In June, Abby received a return permit, removing the Temporary Exclusion Order’s barrier to her re-entering Australia.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the permit would come with extensive monitoring conditions and that Abby would face a “very high level of surveillance”.

“We’ve checked with our agencies and they are ready,” Burke said. “She will have to report where she lives, works and studies, and whether she books a ticket to travel anywhere.”

‘For telecommunications, she cannot use any telecommunications device without giving 24 hours notice. Even if you want to use a public phone, it’s 24 hours notice.

‘Any social media, 24 hours notice on everything has to be given so there will be a very high level of scrutiny and surveillance.

‘And we have gone absolutely to the legal limit that we’re able to.’

If charged with any slavery-related offence, Abby will be the third Australian woman to face such a charge, after Melbourne grandmother Kawsar Abbas and her daughter Zeinab were arrested in May.

‘The most important thing is that this woman is brought to justice and that what has happened to us Yazidis is not forgotten,’ Aisha said.

‘People need to know that I was enslaved by an Australian and that she did this to me.

‘I don’t want her to go back to Australia and live as though nothing happened. I want justice. I want to tell my story.’

The Daily Mail has contacted the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Home Affairs for comment.

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