The posting in Arabic is chilling. A girl for sale: "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old ... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon." The advertisement, along with others for kittens, tactical gear and weapons, appeared on an encrypted Telegram app and was shared with the Associated Press by an activist with Iraq's persecuted Yazidi community, which is trying to free an estimated 3000 women and girls still held as sex slaves by Isis extremists.
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