- The 32-year-old Muslim convert was originally given ten milder years
- The court rejected her appeal on Wednesday as ‘manifestly unfounded’.
A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal against her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband had enslaved while members of the Islamic State group in Iraq, died of thirst in prison. Sun.
The defendant, a German convert to Islam, was convicted in October 2021 of, among other things, two charges of crimes against humanity through slavery – one of which resulted in death – and membership of a terrorist organization abroad.
She was initially given a 10-year prison sentence, which was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice on the grounds that judges had erred in convicting the suspect of a “less serious case” of crimes against humanity and aggravated circumstances had been overlooked.
A new sentencing hearing for the woman, identified only as Jennifer W. in accordance with German privacy rules, ended in August with the 14-year prison sentence.
The court rejected her appeal on Wednesday as ‘manifestly unfounded’. The statement about the ruling did not specify the grounds on which she was appealing.
The suspect, ashamed to show her face, hid behind her legal folder in court in 2021
She was convicted in October 2021 of, among other things, two counts of crimes against humanity through slavery and one count resulting in death in the context of ISIS
The girl died in August 2015 in Fallujah, Iraq. During the original trial, the court found that the suspect did nothing to help the girl – who was chained in their courtyard by her husband – even though this would have been ‘possible and possible’. reasonable’. The couple also enslaved the girl’s mother.
Jennifer W., now 32, was taken into custody at the German embassy in Ankara in 2016 while trying to renew her identity papers and deported to Germany.
Her former husband, an Iraqi citizen identified only as Taha Al-J., was convicted by a court in Frankfurt in November 2021 of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and bodily harm resulting in death.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment.