A 13-year-old girl who escaped the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram says her father sold her into slavery with the group.

The girl, whose identity is being withheld by authorities, said that she was being ordered to become a suicide bomber.  The information from the girl coincides with a rise in terrorist attacks by young girls and women wearing bomb vests.  Officials are concerned that the terrorists are forcing captive women to commit attacks.

The girl said her captors told her the only way to get into paradise would be to let them use her as a homicide bomber.

“When I was told I would have to die to enter paradise, that I would have to explode a bomb and die, I said I cannot do it,” she said.  She eventually allowed them to strap a bomb vest on her after she noticed they were burying alive members of the group and girls who would not follow through with terror attacks.

“I was afraid to be buried alive,” she told reporters.

The girl was initially arrested at a hospital after she arrived with a leg wound.  She told a taxi driver to take her a hospital and she left the bomb vest in the back seat of the taxi.  Officials say they will keep her in protective custody while the investigation continues.

She says her father is now a full member of Boko Haram.