Germans let girls die of thirst: ten years imprisonment for IS returnees

Germans let girls die of thirst
Ten years imprisonment for IS returnees

German Jennifer W. travels to Iraq in 2014 to marry an Islamic State jihadist. There, her husband keeps a five-year-old Yezidis as a slave and lets her die of thirst. The 30-year-old looks on inactive – and has to be in custody for a long time.

In her terror trial before the Munich Higher Regional Court, ISIS returnees Jennifer W. was sentenced to ten years in prison. The court sentenced her, among other things, for membership in a terrorist organization abroad, for aiding and abetting attempted murder, as well as for attempted war crimes and for crimes against humanity. It is the first verdict worldwide for crimes committed by ISIS members against the religious minority of the Yazidis.

Jennifer W. looked shocked by the verdict, first looked to her lawyer for help and then up to the ceiling of courtroom A 101. When the presiding judge Joachim Baier justified the court’s decision, she looked down at her hands.

The federal prosecutor’s office had accused the 30-year-old from Lohne in Lower Saxony, as a member of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, of having watched while her husband at the time chained a little Yezidi girl in the scorching midday sun in a courtyard and let her die of thirst there. The child was “defenseless and helpless exposed to the situation,” said Judge Baier.

The defendant “had to expect from the start that the child, who was tied up in the heat of the sun, was in mortal danger.” But she “did nothing” to help the girl – although it was “possible and reasonable” for her. The court was also convinced that Jennifer W. threatened the girl’s mother later, when she was crying for her child, that she would be shot if she did not stop.

Jennifer W. was originally charged with murder and war crimes, among other charges. Her ex-husband is on trial in Frankfurt for the alleged act. The federal prosecutor’s office had demanded a life sentence for the woman, the defense a maximum of two years imprisonment for membership in the terrorist organization IS. The accused were aware of the misanthropic goals and acts of the IS when she left for Iraq in 2014 to join the organization, the OLG emphasized.

Jennifer W. and her husband had exploited the mother of the deceased girl as a house slave, said Judge Baier in the grounds for the verdict. The woman was beaten every day. Jennifer W. often incited her husband to do so. With her IS membership she supported the “annihilation of the Yazidi religion” and the “enslavement of the Yazidi people”.

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