For these women the Australian men were terrifying.
They enslaved them for months leaving them frightened they would be forced to marry the men.
They allowed their children to beat them and torture them.
They threatened them with rape and tried to force them to change their religion.
The women have now spoken out, still too scared to reveal their names – petrified the Australian men will come back for them.
The women from the Yazidi religious minority in northern Iraq say they were kidnapped by Australian jihadists Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar last year.
They have told the ABC that the wanted terrorists would beat them and “after sleeping with them for one night, they’d sell them to someone else”.
The four women said they were kept captive in a room on the second floor of a house on the outskirts of the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
Khaled Sharrouf lived with his wife, three sons and daughters – and Mohamed Elomar lived alone on the first floor.
Two sisters try to take their lives to avoid sex slavery.
One of the women, Layla, said Sharrouf demanded they convert to Islam.
“He tried to ban us from crying and showing our sadness,” she said.
“He threatened to sell us if we did. He said, ‘Why are you sad? Forget about your home and family. This is your home and we are your family now. Forget about your gods, for good, because we have killed them all’.