Leah Sharibu: Captive for Over Three Years

On Feb. 19th, 2018, Boko Haram kidnapped 110 young girls aged 11-19 from Dapchi, Nigeria, located 170 miles northwest of Chibok, where Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls in 2014.  Five girls died during the kidnapping and 104 were later released.  However, one young girl was not released.  Her name is Leah Sharibu.  Leah was 14 years old when she was kidnapped, and the reason she wasn't released was because she refused to renounce her faith in Christ.  For this reason, Boko Haram refused to release Leah and instead forcibly married her to one of their militant leaders.  


Boko Haram chose to do this because under Sharia Law, if a non-Muslim woman marries a Muslim man, she is automatically considered to be Muslim, as are her children.  Since her captivity began Leah has been repeatedly raped by her militant "husband" and has given birth to two children.  Now, at the age of 18, she is still in captivity and it's unknown if she will ever be freed again.  Boko Haram has vowed to keep Leah as a "slave for life."  Even if Leah were to be freed, she may end up losing her two children in the process, yet another tactic used by Jihadists to keep their abducted "wives" in captivity.  



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