Two of the three London schoolgirls who went to Syria in February are now married to ISIS soldiers and have contacted their families to tell them the news.
One of them called home while the other announced the news through social media, according to The Guardian.
Bethnal Green Academy students Shamima Begum, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase flew to Istanbul and entered ISIS-controlled territory in Syria in February. The girls are ages 15, 16 and 15, respectively. Their families requested that the identity of the two girls who married in Syria be kept secret.
When they got to Syria, the girls were reportedly given a "catalogue" featuring ISIS soldiers they could choose husbands from according to their preference. The men they chose were in their 20s, ABC Online News reports.
Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer who represents the girls' families, said the news caused their families "a lot of distress," according to The Guardian.
The girls told their families that they have been living in separate locations for weeks and that they are now staying with their husbands, whom they married in a ceremony approved by ISIS leaders.
The Metropolitan police are still investigating the exact location of the girls in Syria, as well as the disappearance of another student from the same school.
"The investigation into all of the missing girls continues. It remains a priority to try to prevent people travelling to join terrorist groups whether they be determined terrorists, radicalised individuals or vulnerable teenagers," the police said, according to The Guardian.
The court has issued travel restrictions to four girls from Bethnal Green Academy to prevent them from going out of the country for fear that they might follow the others to Syria, ABC Online News reports.
It is believed that Aqsa Mahmood, a 20-year-old Jihadi bride and teacher from Glasgow, helped recruit the girls, NY Daily News reports.
An estimated 3,000 Westerners, 550 of whom are women, have gone to Syria and Iraq since the conflict with ISIS started, based on a research done by the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, according to NY Daily News.
