On the night of 14-15 April 2014, approximately 275 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The kidnappings were claimed by Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria. Fears for the fate the girls Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish on May 5, 2014 when the leader of the Islamist militant group that kidnapped them announced plans to sell them.
