From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsacrificial victimsacrificial victimRRa person or animal that is killed and offered as a sacrifice (=gift) to a god → victim
Examples from the Corpus
sacrificial victim• He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim.• Is she perhaps a sacrificial victim?• And at their feet, a white-clad sacrificial victim, was the body.• Yet again, housing is the main sacrificial victim.• In most cases, however, the imam was a sort of sacrificial victim.• Now he is Yahweh's sacrificial victim.• And the sacrificial victim is yourself.• They were in the middle of a hideous ritual, and they were the sacrificial victims. 