BERLIN (AP) – A German federal court on Wednesday appealed a 14-year sentence for a woman who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for neglecting a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she kept as a slave with her husband while she was a member of the Islamic State group. announced that it had been rejected. In Iraq she will die of thirst in the sun.
The defendant, a German national who converted to Islam, was found guilty in October 2021 of two counts of crimes against humanity, including enslavement, one of which resulted in death, and membership in a foreign terrorist organization. .
She was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, but a federal judge ruled that the judge had erred in sentencing her for a “minor case” of crimes against humanity and overlooking grave circumstances. overturned by the court.
A new sentencing hearing for the woman, identified only as Jennifer W. in accordance with German privacy rules, concluded in August with a sentence of 14 years in prison.
The court announced Wednesday that it had dismissed her appeal as “manifestly baseless.” The judgment did not specify the reasons for her appeal.
The girl died in Fallujah, Iraq, in August 2015. In the original case, the court found that the defendant did nothing to help the girl who was chained to her husband in her courtyard, although it would have been “possible and reasonable” to do so. ” The couple also kept the girl’s mother as a slave.
Jennifer W., now 32, was detained and deported to Germany in 2016 while trying to renew her identity card at the German embassy in Ankara.
Her ex-husband, an Iraqi national identified only by his first name, Taha al-Jei, was found guilty by a Frankfurt court in November 2021 of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and causing death by bodily harm. I received it. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
