Shocking: 3 Teen Girls Arrested While Escaping School To Join Terrorist Group

Three 17-year-old American girls, one of Sudanese descent and two of Somali descent were arrested in Germany on their way to Turkey after ditching class to join Islamic State militants.

Dailymail reports that the girls had lied to their parents about showing up in school on the day they departed for Turkey to join ISIS in Syria.

The first indication that something wasn’t right was a phone call from the high school of one of the girls to her father, Assad Ibrahim, letting him know his daughter had not come to class.

According to officials, Ibrahim had dialled his daughter’s phone and she answered, but didn’t tell him she was on her way to Syria to join the terrorist group.

She was just late for class, that’s all, Ibrahim’s daughter told him on Friday, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, which filed a runaway report.

Two more girls, sisters

Those two had told their father, Ali Farah that they were going to the library.

But when Farah got home from work, a visitor came calling, according to the documents. Apparently, it was Ibrahim.

Farah should check to see if his daughters’ passports were missing, the visitor told him — just like his daughter’s passport was.

Sure enough, they were gone, along with $2,000 in cash.

The two families called the FBI. They said they thought the girls were on their way to Turkey.

The agency put out a notice on their passports.

German authorities intercepted the trio, ages 15, 16 and 17, at Frankfurt airport and put them on a plane back to the United States, where they were greeted by FBI agents.

The three girls were questioned and released. Two U.S. officials say they had planned to join militants with ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

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