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Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has circulated a “price list” for child slaves to its fighters in Syria and Iraq, according to a United Nations official.

Zainab Bangura, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, told Bloomberg that girls are “peddled like barrels of petrol.” Bangura said the terrorists will sometimes buy girls and then turn around and sell them to their families for thousands of dollars in ransom.

The UN officials said that young children, from the ages of one to nine, are on the list with a price of around $165, while adolescents and women fetch lower prices as they get older.

Bangura said that she was given a copy of the list during a trip to Iraq in April and can now confirm that it is real after spending time in the region.

The slaves, many of them captured Yazidis, are first offered to ISIL’s leadership, Bangura said, then put up for sale to foreign buyers for thousands of dollars before being offered to ISIL fighters for the lower prices on the list.

In 2014, ISIL put out a pamphlet which used justification from the Koran for the rape and torture of female slaves. The terror group also released a video last year which showed footage of a slave auction that included ISIL fighters discussing what they would pay for various women.

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