A German national is on trial in Munich court for the war crime of allowing 5-year-old Yazidi girl to die of thirst while she was chained up in 45-degree heat as a punishment.
The trial is believed to be the first worldwide to be based on charges involving crimes of ISIS members against the Yazidi minority.
Jennifer W., 27, is believed to have been involved with ISIS from September 2014 to 2016. Prosecutors said that while her husband chained the girl, she did nothing to prevent the girl's death.
She and her husband, an ISIS fighter, allegedly bought the Yazidi girl and her mother as household slaves.
"After the girl fell ill and wet her mattress, the husband of the accused chained her up outside as punishment and let the child die an agonizing death of thirst in the scorching heat," prosecutors said.
"The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl."
She faces life in prison if found guilty.
Meanwhile, another German woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for joining ISIS.
The regional court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart had earlier Friday convicted the 32-year-old defendant of joining a foreign terrorist organization, Reuters reported.
The woman was identified only as Sabine Ulrike Sch. under German privacy rules. She lived in Syria from late 2013 to August 2017.
She got married to an ISIS militant and lived with him in houses seized by the terror group, prosecutors said.
The accused allegedly received weapons training between 2014 and mid-2017 and wrote blogs praising life in ISIS-controlled territory.
According to Reuters, her husband died in fighting in 2016, while she was detained by Kurdish forces in 2017 and returned to Germany in April 2018.
