Brave Pakistani Christian Girl, Kidnapped by ISIS, Shares Her Story of Abuse and Escape: "I Knew Jesus Would Get Me Out of Hell"

Leah Marieann Klett : Apr 7, 2016
Gospel Herald

Despite the shocking abuse, Komal held fast to her faith in Jesus Christ throughout the entire ordeal, believing that He would be faithful and rescue her from her pain.

A Pakistani Christian girl who escaped ISIS captivity after being tortured, raped, and forced to convert to Islam, has shared how she never lost her faith in Jesus Christ throughout the horrific ordeal. (Photo: Pakistani Christians/via British Pakistani Christian Association)

Now 15, Komal and her family members were kidnapped by Islamic State militants last year.
 
"I was sleeping along with my mother on a single bed during a power-cut time in my house yard," she told International Christian Concern (ICC), describing the evening she was abducted.
 
"At around midnight, five armed men with masks climbed over the boundary wall and entered into [our] house. The armed men brutally beat the entire family and threatened them [with] severe consequences if they shouted for help," she recalled.
 
Komal continued: "Then, the kidnappers dragged me from my mother's lap to their car in the street. My eyes and mouth were covered with a piece of cloth and they took me to [an] unknown place where five of them raped me in front of each other, taking turns."
 
Over the next few months, Komal suffered unrelenting abuse at the hands of the militants.
 
"Burning my female parts with cigarettes was a routine exercise for them," she said. "Almost for two months they beat me every day for nothing and did not give [me] enough food to eat."
 
Even worse—Komal, who was eventually impregnated by one of her rapists, was forced to legally change her religion from Christianity to Islam and marry one of her captors with forged documents claiming she was 18.
 
"After almost two months of inhuman treatment and humiliation, they took me to the courthouse and forced me to put my thumb impression on a document that declared me the wife of a Muslim," she said.
 
"I did not want this to happen, however, I had no other option because they threatened to kill my parents if I did not obey. Therefore, they forcefully married me to a Muslim and converted me to Islam. Without my wish they changed my religion, my identity and even my name," the young woman recalled. "My new husband, who continued to rape me for the next two months, then moved to another city. This man already had two wives at his house."
 
Her new husband forced Komal to become a prostitute, which she described as the worst agony of all: "I felt like dying every day... I had become a forced prostitute. He even hired a watch-woman to keep an eye on me almost round the clock."
 
Despite the shocking abuse, Komal held fast to her faith in Jesus Christ throughout the entire ordeal, believing that He would be faithful and rescue her from her pain.

"I had faith that Jesus would get me out of this Hell," she told ICC.

Miraculously, in February, Komal was presented with the perfect opportunity to escape...
 
Read what happened next here.