article_snippet.sent: Children as young as four are being used within the ranks of Boko Haram – as cooks, porters and look-outs.
article_snippet.sent: Children as young as four are the lucky ones, others are trained to fight, forced to be suicide bombers or sold as sex slaves.
article_snippet.sent: According to accounts by escapees, young women and girls who have been abducted have been subjected to forced marriage, forcible religious conversion from Christianity to Islam, physical and psychological abuse and forced labour and rape.
article_snippet.sent: Many have seen parents, siblings, relatives or neighbours killed, tortured or abducted.
article_snippet.sent: Many have had to run for parents, siblings, relatives or neighbours killed, tortured or abducted lives and walk for days to reach safety.
article_snippet.sent: Others have been exposed to extreme violence and abuse. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Many children remain in captivity, forced to fight or become sex slaves .
  