German Isis woman convicted of keeping young female slave in Iraq, repeatedly raped by husband
- Prosecutors said the defendant travelled to Syria with her husband and joined IS, then the couple moved to Iraqi where they kept the woman
- The court said the husband brought the young Kurdish woman to their home and regularly raped her, and that the defendant was aware of that
A German woman was convicted on Wednesday of keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave during her time with Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, and sentenced to nine years and three months in prison.
The state court in the Western city of Koblenz convicted the 37-year-old of crimes against humanity, membership in a foreign terrorist organisation and being an accessory to genocide, German news agency dpa reported. Authorities have identified her only as Nadine K. in line with German privacy rules.
The court found that the defendant for three years abused a young Yazidi woman “in her own interests as a household slave”. It said that her husband brought the woman to their home and regularly raped her, and that the defendant was aware of that and should have intervened.
Prosecutors have said that the defendant travelled to Syria with her husband in 2014 and joined IS. In 2015, the couple moved to the Iraqi town of Mosul, where they allegedly kept the Yazidi woman.
The defendant was arrested in March 2022 after being brought back to Germany from a camp in northeastern Syria where suspected members of IS have been held.
In a statement read out at her trial by a defence lawyer, she denied having coerced the Yazidi woman at any point. She said there had been frequent arguments with her husband over the woman’s presence and she was ashamed of not having done more for her.
In February, the Yazidi woman testified at the trial and said she recognised the defendant.
