ISIS uses Facebook to sell female captives as sex slaves

ISIS is using social media to post photos of their female captives being offered for sale.

In a Facebook post, a man fighting for the Islamic State uploaded a photo of a woman wearing no veil and trying to look like she is smiling. The woman appeared to be around 18 years old.

"To all the bros thinking about buying a slave, this one is $8,000," the photo caption read, according to The Washington Post.

After a few hours, another photo was uploaded on the same social media account, this time showing a young woman with pale skin and red eyes. She was also for sale.

"Another sabiyah [slave], also about $8,000. Yay, or nay?" the second photo caption said.

The posts have since been taken down by Facebook, but they were documented by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization that monitors the terror group's accounts in various social media platforms.

MEMRI's executive director Steven Stalinksky said the Facebook account was registered to a man named Abu Assad Almani, believed to be a German national who has joined ISIS in Syria. 

"We have seen a great deal of brutality, but the content that ISIS has been disseminating over the past two years has surpassed it all for sheer evil," Stalinsky said, according to The Post. "Sales of slave girls on social media is just one more example of this."

There had been no known cases of ISIS selling girls on social media prior to the recently discovered Facebook posts.

Almani reportedly have other social media accounts that he uses to ask for donations for ISIS.

According to experts, the photos uploaded by Almani show the real dangers being faced by the terror group's female captives, particularly those who are believed to be held as sex slaves. Human Rights Watch says ISIS is holding about 1,800 women and girls captured from Yazidi towns, The Post reported.