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ISIS terrorists rape teenager and beat her to death

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  • Published Jan 4, 2016 5:52 pm KST
  • Updated Jan 4, 2016 5:52 pm KST

Samra Kesinovic, left, and Sabina Selimovic, right/ Screen capture from Twitter

A teenage Austrian girl, who had been an ISIS sex slave, was beaten to death, the British Daily mail reports.

Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, left Austria and travelled, via Turkey, to Syria to join ISIS in April 2014.

They reportedly left a note for their families which read: “Don't look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him.”

Shortly after arriving in Syria, Slimovic sent a French magazine SMS messages, saying she was enjoying life in Syria and felt free to practice her religion.

The teenagers became the group’s “poster girls.” Images of them carrying AK-47s while surrounded by armed men were uploaded on ISIS websites.

However, by October there were reports that Kesinovic wanted to flee ISIS because she was sickened by the group’s murders.

She tried to flee the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, but was caught.

She was forced to be a sex slave for the group before she was murdered, according to a former Tunisian extremist, who lived with the girls in Raqqa.

According to the Tunisian woman, the girls were viewed as a “sexual present for new fighters.”

Selimovic is believed to have died in fighting in Syria in 2015, according to a U.N. official.

Meanwhile, the growing number of young people joining ISIS has been a problem for Austrian authorities.

“If we can catch young people before they leave, we have the chance to work with their parents and other institutions to bring the youngsters out of the sphere of influence that prompted them to act in this way the first place,” said Interior Ministry spokesman Alexander Marakovits.

“Once they have left the country, even if they then changed their minds, it is then almost impossible to get them back.”