Boko Haram Escapee Recounts Terrible Experience

File Photo of some escaped Chibok girls

Seventeen-year-old Miriam, who escaped from Islamic insurgents, Boko Haram, has explained how she was kidnapped by the extremists and forced to marry a man and became pregnant, before she ran away from their camp.

The teenager, who spoke with a BBC reporter, narrated how she was raped repeatedly after being forced to marry the fighter.

According to This Day, the young woman was held in captivity by Boko Haram for six months last year, and was made pregnant by one of the insurgents whom she later referred to as her husband.

Miriam explained further how her community had rejected her since she came out of captivity because she was pregnant.

“I really hope it is a girl. I would love her more than any boy. A boy would always be known as the son of Boko Haram,”  she said.