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German Isis woman let 'slave' girl, 5, die of thirst, say prosecutors

‘Jennifer W’ charged with war crimes in Germany after child chained up outside in Iraq

A German female member of Islamic State is facing war crimes charges in her home country for letting a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun.

While living in then Isis-occupied Mosul in northern Iraq in 2015, the 27-year-old German citizen identified only as Jennifer W and her husband purchased the child as a household “slave”, German prosecutors said on Friday.

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