German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl

German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/german-on-trial-over-death-of-5-year-old-yazidi-slave-girl/2019/04/09/3d7b2316-5aaa-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fff6f4e9143c

Excerpt: A German convert to Islam went on trial Tuesday on charges that, as a member of the extremist Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave to die of thirst in the hot sun. The 27-year-old, identified only as Jennifer W. in line with privacy rules, is charged with murder, a war crime and membership in a terrorist organization, and could face life in prison if convicted in Munich state court.