Among other offenses, a German woman who joined the Islamic State (IS) group was sentenced to nine years in prison for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave.
Additionally, the defendant was determined to have committed crimes against humanity and belonged to a foreign terrorist group.
The 37-year-old was accused of abusing the young Yazidi woman for three years while they lived in Syria and Iraq, according to a court in the western city of Koblenz.
Additionally, it was discovered that she had encouraged her husband to rape and beat the victim.
Prosecutors stated at the beginning of the trial in January, "All of this served the declared purpose of IS, to wipe out the Yazidi faith.".
The ancestral homeland of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq was overrun by IS fighters in 2014.
To Mount Sinjar they fled, the Yazidis. Numerous people were killed, and about 7,000 women and girls were captured and sold into slavery.
One of them was the young lady who, according to the prosecution, was used as a slave by the accused, Nadine K, and her husband beginning in 2016, when they moved to the Iraqi city of Mosul.
A year earlier, they had moved with the woman, who was in her early 20s, back to Syria after traveling there to join IS.
Nadine K and her family were taken prisoner by Kurdish forces in Syria in March 2019. After being sent back to Germany, she was detained the previous year.
The defendant claimed she should have done more for the Yazidi woman, but she denied using coercion during her trial.
The victim, who was released in 2019, gave evidence during Nadine K's trial in February and was present for the decision on Wednesday.
According to the news agency Associated Press, her attorney stated that her client hoped that everyone who had committed similar crimes would be prosecuted.
Former IS members have recently been charged with murdering or mistreating Yazidis in a number of trials in Germany. .
A woman was sentenced to ten years in prison in October 2021 for the murder of a Yazidi girl who had been purchased as a slave by her and her husband.
A month later, a German court made history by becoming the first court in the world to recognize the Yazidi Genocide committed by IS.
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