A document issued earlier this month by the group's 'Department for Prisoners and Women's Affairs' explains in sickening detail exactly who can be made a sex slave, when a woman should be beaten, and under what circumstances it is justified to rape prepubescent girls.

Up to 5,000 kidnapped women and children are held as sex slaves in the vast swathes of Syria and Iraq controlled by ISIS, many of them in the group's stronghold and de facto capital Raqqa.

The vast majority of the captives are members of the Yazidi religion who were kidnapped during the Mount Sinjar massacre in early August. The rules state that these women can be imprisoned and raped on a daily basis by militants who purchase them as slaves for as little as £27 each.

The document outlining the rules by which Islamic State militants can take and hold slaves was released by the terror group's 'Department for Prisoners and Women's Affairs' on December 3.

The department, headed by a militant known as Abu Suja, helps the terror group enforce policy decisions made by the Shura Council - a kind of religious advisory body appointed by leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to study the Koran and make rulings based on their interpretation of sharia law.

Taking the form of a 'Slavery for Dummies' guide, the document is laid out in a distinctly simplistic question and answer format designed to assist even the least intelligent jihadi in his slave treatment.

The U.S.-based Middle East Media Research Institute obtained an original copy of the document, and published full details of it on the monitoring group's website.

Answers are provided to sickening questions such as 'Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive immediately after taking possession?', and 'If the female captive was impregnated by her owner, can he then sell her?'.

(dailymail.co.uk)