A German convert to Islam has been sentenced to ten years in prison on charges that, as a member of the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, she allowed a five-year-old Yazidi girl, whom she and her husband kept as a slave, to die of thirst in the hot sun.
The Higher Regional Court in Munich convicted a XNUMX-year-old woman, identified only as Jennifer V., of participating in a terrorist organization abroad, aiding and abetting attempted murder, attempted war crimes and crimes against humanity, AP reports.
Federal prosecutors have accused a woman from Lone, Lower Saxony, of standing by in Iraq while her then-husband tied up a young Yazidi girl in the yard and left her to die of thirst, Tanjug reports.
The child was "helplessly exposed to the situation", said judge Joachim Bayer and added that V. "must have known from the beginning that the child, who was tied up in the sun, was in danger of death".
However, she did nothing to help the girl, Bayer said.
V. grew up as a Protestant, but converted to Islam in 2013.
German media reported that in 2014 she reached Iraq via Turkey and Syria to join the Islamic State.
In 2015, as a member of an extremist group, she patrolled parks in Fallujah and Mosul, armed with a rifle and a pistol, as well as a vest with explosives, in search of women who did not adhere to strict codes of behavior and dress, prosecutors said.
She was detained while trying to renew her identity documents at the German embassy in Ankara in 2016 and was deported back to Germany.
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