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Jennifer Wenisch arrives in a courtroom for her trial in Munich, Germany. Photo: dpa via AP

German Isis woman gets 10 years in prison for Yazidi girl’s murder in Iraq

  • Jennifer Wenisch allowed a five-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave to die of thirst in the sun
  • She was found guilty of ‘two crimes against humanity in the form of enslavement’
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A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined the Islamic State (Isis) group to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun.

Presiding judge Reinhold Baier of the superior regional court in the southern German city handed down the verdict to Jennifer Wenisch, 30, in one of the first convictions anywhere in the world related to Isis’s persecution of the Yazidi community.

Wenisch 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.

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Wenisch and her Isis husband “purchased” a Yazidi woman and child as household “slaves”, whom they held captive while living in then Isis-occupied Mosul, Iraq, in 2015, the court found.

“After the girl fell ill and wet her mattress, the husband of the accused chained her up outside as punishment and let the child die an agonising death of thirst in the scorching heat,” prosecutors said during the trial.

“The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl.”

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Wenisch’s husband, Taha al-Jumailly, is also facing trial in separate proceedings in Frankfurt, where the verdict is due in late November.

Identified only by her first name Nora, the Yazidi girl’s mother has repeatedly testified in both Munich and Frankfurt about the torment allegedly visited on her child.

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