Born: 1991;

Place of Birth: Germany;

Gender: Female;

Nationality: German;

General Info:
Jennifer Wenisch is a German woman who joined the Islamic State group to ten years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun.

Wenisch was found guilty of crimes against humanity in the form of enslavement.

She was also convicted of aiding and abetting the girl’s killing by failing to offer help as well as membership of a terrorist organisation.

Wenisch and her Islamic State husband “purchased” a Yazidi woman and child as household slaves, whom they held captive while living in then Islamic State-occupied Mosul in 2015.

Wenisch converted to Islam in 2013 and travelled the following year via Turkey and Syria to Iraq where she joined the Islamic State terrorist group.

Recruited in mid-2015 to the group’s self-styled hisbah morality police, she patrolled city parks in Islamic State-occupied Fallujah and Mosul.

Armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, a pistol and an explosives vest, her task was to ensure strict Islamic State rules on dress code, public behaviour and bans on alcohol and tobacco.

In January 2016, she visited the German embassy in Ankara to apply for new identity papers. When she left the mission, she was arrested and extradited days later to Germany.

Federal prosecutors had called for a life sentence for Wenisch, while her defence team urged a two-year term only on the charge of belonging to a terror group.