Her lawyer sought a two-year suspended sentence, yet Jennifer Wenisch’s ten-year sentence still does not fit the crime. Nonetheless, she still makes herself out to be a victim, saying that “she was ‘afraid’ that her husband would ‘push her or lock her up.’” How does being “pushed” and “locked up” compare to this?: “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 an agonising death of thirst in the scorching heat… ‘The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl.’”
Islamic State brides are often as culpable as their jihadist husbands, and many raise their children in the way of jihad. Some Islamic State brides are active on social media and open about their commitment to raise their their children as jihad fighters.
“German ISIS bride who chained up five-year-old Yazidi slave girl in the sun and let her die of thirst for wetting the bed faces tough new sentence as court overturns ‘too lenient’ ten-year jail term”, by Christian Oliver, Daily Mail, March 9, 2023:
A German ISIS bride was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Munich court today over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi ‘slave’ girl die of thirst in the sun.
Jennifer Wenisch, 30, from Lohne in Lower Saxony, was found guilty of ‘two crimes against humanity in the form of enslavement’, as well as aiding and abetting the girl’s killing and being a member of a terrorist organisation.
Wenisch converted to Islam in 2013 and made her way to Iraq to join the Islamic State, where she and her husband ‘purchased’ a Yazidi woman and child as household slaves according to the court.
‘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 an agonising death of thirst in the scorching heat,’ prosecutors said during the trial.
‘The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl.’
Her sentence, handed out by the Higher Regional Court in Munich, is the culmination of what is thought to be one of the first convictions anywhere in the world related to the Islamic State group’s persecution of the Yazidi community.
Presiding judge Reinhold Baier handed down the verdict to Wenisch this morning, after declaring the child was ‘defenceless and helplessly exposed to the situation,’ and that Wenisch ‘had to reckon from the beginning that the child, who was tied up in the heat of the sun, was in danger of dying’.
Wenisch’s husband, Taha al-Jumailly, is also facing trial in separate proceedings in Frankfurt, where the verdict is due in late November.
When asked during the trial about her failure to save the girl, Wenisch said she was ‘afraid’ that her husband would ‘push her or lock her up’.
Identified only by her first name Nora, the Yazidi girl’s mother has repeatedly testified in both Munich and Frankfurt about the torment allegedly visited on her child….
