MELBOURNE,: A Yazidi woman has alleged she shared a bedroom with a woman accused of enslaving her in Syria and was repeatedly raped and beaten by the woman’s father, police told a court on Thursday.
Zeinab Ahmad, 31, applied for bail in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on two slavery charges. The hearing resumes Friday.
She and her mother Kawsar Ahmad, 53, also known as Kawsar Abbas, have been in custody since they returned to Australia from a Syrian refugee camp last month with a group of Australian women and children linked to the Daesh group.
The Iraqi-born Yazidi witness, who cannot be named, said in a police statement that Mohammed Ahmad, Zeinab’s father and Kawsar’s husband, bought her for $10,000 in 2017 in the then-Daesh stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, Detective Senior Constable Mark Clendenning told the court.
Clendenning alleged Kawsar was involved in buying the teen as a slave, which was a rare role for a woman in the Daesh so-called caliphate.
