Captives were sent to Syria or to other locations inside Iraq where they were bought and sold for sex According to a report in The New York Times one of the captives a 12 year old Yazidi child was raped by a devout Muslim fighter who took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her it condoned and encouraged it 