Koblenz, Dec 15, (dpa/GNA) â A German woman and member of the Islamic State terrorist organization, who was convicted of abusing a Yezidi woman as a slave, has had her sentence reduced by some nine months.
The woman was initially sentenced to nine years and three months in prision, but the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz on Monday reduced the sentence to eight years and six months. The verdict is not yet final.
The initial sentence was delivered in July but the woman appealed. The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe then determined that there has been some legal errors in her conviction for aiding and abetting genocide. Germany’s highest criminal court partially amended the conviction.
The Higher Regional Court then had to renegotiate the sentence. In a statement about the reduced sentence, the court said it took into account ” that the defendant had since shown clear and credible deradicalization.”
During her time with Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the woman had abused a young Yezidi girl as a domestic slave for three years, according to the Higher Regional Court’s initial ruling in July.
Her husband had brought the Yezidi girl into the household and raped her regularly. The defendant had facilitated and encouraged the rapes, the court had ruled.
GNA