German IS returnee Jennifer W. is threatened with a heavier sentence because she left a Yazidi girl chained to death in Iraq in 2015 in the scorching heat without intervening. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Munich had sentenced the woman to ten years in prison. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe partially overturned this ruling on Thursday. According to judge Jürgen Schäfer, there are far-reaching legal objections to accepting a less serious case.
Now another criminal chamber of the court in Munich must renegotiate the amount of the sentence against the woman from Lower Saxony.
For the other points, the judgment against the 31-year-old is final. Their review was rejected by the highest criminal courts of the BGH. The prosecution has appealed to the Supreme Court.
Iraqi ex-husband sentenced to life in prison
W.’s Iraqi ex-husband, who chained the five-year-old to a grating in the garden as punishment, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment, also for genocide. He had bought the girl and her mother as slaves after they were kidnapped by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).
Yazidis are ethnic Kurds from Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. They are a religious minority. In 2014, IS captured the region around the Sinjar Mountains in northern Iraq. The jihadists killed more than 5,000 members of this religious community. Women and girls were kidnapped, enslaved and raped. The German Bundestag recognized the crimes as genocide in January.
Source: Krone
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