‘Jennifer W’ charged with war crimes in Germany after child chained up outside in IraqA German female member of Islamic State is facing war crimes charges in her home country for letting a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun. The 27-year-old German citizen identified only as Jennifer W and her husband purchased the child as a household “slave” when living in then Isis-occupied Mosul in northern Iraq in 2015, German prosecutors said on Friday. “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 of thirst in the scorching heat,” they said in a statement. W had first left Germany in August 2014 and travelled via Turkey and Syria to Iraq where she joined Isis the following month. “Since then her declared goal has been to return to the territory under Islamic State rule,” said the prosecutors.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2018 00:26 UTC