MUNICH, GERMANY - OCTOBER 13: Jennifer W. arrives for what is likely one of the last days of her trial over her responsibility in the death of a young Yazidi girl while Jennifer W. was a follower of the Islamic State in Syria on October 13, 2021 in Munich, Germany. While prosecutors have demanded a life-long sentence, observers are expecting a much lighter sentence, as the court has been unable to prove the circumstances around the death of the girl, who Jennifer W. and her husband kept as a slave. Jennifer W. joined the Islamic State after falling in love with an IS fighter in Germany and lived in Syria during 2015. Her husband is currently on trial in Frankfurt on charges of crimes against humanity. (Photo by Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images)
A German woman who joined ISIS was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday over the death of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl.
The Higher Regional Court in Munich found the woman, identified only as Jennifer W., guilty of crimes against humanity for “enslavement resulting in the death of another” as well as being a member of a foreign terrorist group, the court’s spokesperson Florian Gliwitzky told CNN.
Jennifer W. was living in Iraq with her ISIS fighter husband in 2015 when he purchased a Yazidi woman and her five-year-old daughter as slaves.
Gliwitzky said the husband, who is facing a separate trial in Frankfurt, subjected the Yazidi woman and her daughter to “daily abuse.”
“The 5-year-old daughter was abused by blows to the head and pushing on the floor, which was so strong that the child injured her shoulder,” Gliwitzky said.
Source: CNN
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