Germany jails ISIS woman over death of Yazidi girl

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A German woman who joined the Islamic State group (ISIS) was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for letting an enslaved Yazidi girl die of thirst in the sun.

During her time in Iraq, Jennifer Wenisch stood by while her then-husband and ISIS fighter tied up a Yazidi girl outside their house in scorching heat and left her to die of thirst, the court heard. The 5-year-old had been tied up as a punishment for wetting her bed.

The child was “defenseless and helplessly exposed,” the judge said in the Munich Higher Regional Court, according to DPA — and Wenisch did “nothing” to help.

Wenisch, who denied the charges, was found guilty of “two crimes against humanity in the form of enslavement,” as well as aiding and abetting the girl’s killing by failing to offer help.

Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-jails-returned-isis-wife-for-crimes-against-humanity/

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[Sherman A1]

1. Ten years?

She is getting by pretty cheap seems to me.

[Steelrolled]

5. It might be that the Germans don't believe that more than 10 years would help her.

[samsingh]

2. not strong enough

[irisblue]

3. From a second source

Source-https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/25/german-court-sentences-isil-member-to-10-years-in-prison


snip-"Monday’s conviction of Jennifer Wenisch, 30, by Munich’s Higher Regional Court marked one of the first court rulings anywhere in the world on ISIL’s persecution of the Yazidi community."


snip-"German media reported that she made her way to Iraq through Turkey and Syria in 2014 to join ISIL. Prosecutors said she subsequently integrated herself into the decision-making and command structure of the armed group.

In 2015, as a member of the group’s “morality police,” she patrolled parks in Fallujah and Mosul, armed with an assault rifle and a pistol as well as an explosive vest and looking for women who did not conform with its strict codes of behaviour and dress, prosecutors said.

She was taken into custody while trying to renew her identity papers at the German embassy in Ankara in 2016, and deported back to Germany."

more there

Wow. Left Germany traveled to join ISIL, and thought she could keep her safe German legal identity. Wow

[IronLionZion]

4. I'm surprised Jennifer Wenisch got anything at all

Germans might be stricter about these crimes than Americans.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. Religion doing what it does best

Turning normal people into crazies.

[2Gingersnaps]

7. Yeah, and like the first poster said,

She got off light with ten years. But at least she got that.

[XanaDUer2]

8. Only ten years? Nt

[Elessar Zappa]

9. Could be that Germany gives lighter sentences.

A lot of countries give less jail time than the United States.

[XanaDUer2]

10. Poor five-year-old chained outside

In the blazing sun, slowly dying from lack of water.

Well, maybe so.

[Elessar Zappa]

11. It's a horrible crime.

Should have been given life in prison but I don’t know if that’s possible in their system.

[XanaDUer2]

12. I think I read they're going for that

For the husband. Hope the "slaves" were not also sexually assaulted