German ISIS Bride Gets Ten-Year Term For Death Of Yazidi "Slave" Girl

Yazidi slave girl death: Jennifer Wenisch, a German woman who joined the Islamic State, was Monday sentenced to ten years of prison in the death case of a five-year-old girl from the persecuted Yazidi community whom she had enslaved. A court in Munich convicted her of war crimes, reportedly the first order of its kind with regard to violence perpetrated by the Islamic State against the Yazidis.

As per DW, Wenisch was found guilty of "two crimes against humanity," including the enslavement and abetment of the Yazidi girl's killing. Wenisch's husband chained the girl outside their house when she was ill and she was left in the heat to die of thirst without intervention. The girl's mother testified that she was forced to watch her die.

The girl and her mother both were "purchased" by Wenisch and her husband as "slaves" and lived with them in Iraq in 2015. She died that year in Fallujah.

"The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl," the prosecutors argued, as quoted by AFP. 

As per reports, a verdict in the case of Wenisch's husband Taha al-Jumailly, who is also on trial, is due next month.

Yazidi Slave Girl Death Gets A Verdict: Know Who Is The Convict, Jennifer Wenisch

Wenisch converted to Islam in 2013 and travelled to Iraq where she assumed role as a member of the "morality police" in 2015. She was reportedly tasked with patrolling IS-occupied cities armed with explosives and an AK-47 rifle. AFP reports her duty "was to ensure strict IS rules on dress code, public behaviour and bans on alcohol and tobacco."

In 2016, she was arrested and extradited to Germany where her trial began three years later.

Her legal counsel said in court that she was "afraid" of what her husband would do to her if she intervened in the killing of the young Yazidi girl. She claims the testimony of the girl's mother is not trustworthy and that the five-year-old was taken to hospital after the mishap.

The Yazidis have been a long-oppressed community in the Middle East, facing atrocities most notably from Islamist terrorists in Iraq in recent times. Yazidi massacres in 2007 culminated in a genocide starting 2014 in Iraq, which expelled the community from Sinjar, their ancestral homeland. Reports suggest thousands of Yazidi women and children have been taken as "slaves" by terrorists since the war.

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