A man and a woman have been arrested in Bavaria accused of keeping Yazidi children as slaves in Iraq and Syria. They will be holding a five-year-old girl as a slave by the end of 2015 at the latest. A twelve-year-old girl is said to have arrived in 2017.
The man allegedly sexually abused the girls several times and the woman allegedly made up the children and prepared the rooms specifically for this purpose.
Physical violence in “crimes”
The girls also had to do ‘constant’ housework and care for the children. Alleged misconduct was responded to with physical violence. The woman once hit the older girl with a broomstick.
The man burned the smaller child’s hand with hot water and repeatedly forced them to stand on one leg for half an hour as punishment. The children were not allowed to practice their own religion; instead, they had to follow Islamic prayers and religious rules.
Suspects in custody
According to German federal prosecutors, HS and RA, both Iraqi nationals, were arrested on Tuesday in Regensburg and the Roth district. The investigating judge at the German Federal Court of Justice has ordered pre-trial detention. They are strongly suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and membership of the jihadist militia Islamic State (IS) (2015 to 2017).
Source: Krone
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