A German woman who joined the Islamic State was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for crimes against humanity after prosecutors said she stood by as a five-year-old Yazidi captive died of thirst in the Iraqi desert.
Prosecutors in Munich said Jennifer Wenisch, 30, and her husband bought and enslaved a Yazidi woman and child in Mosul in 2015. They reportedly brought the mother and daughter to the IS-occupied Iraqi city of Fallujah, where they forced them to convert to Islam and regularly deprived the pair of food and water. The girl’s mother, who the court identified as Nora T., testified about their ordeal.
