(AFP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State group in Syria as a 15-year-old was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday but cleared of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
Judges found Leonora Messing, now 22, guilty of membership of a terrorist organisation, a spokesman for the higher regional court in Naumburg said in a statement.
Prosecutors had accused Messing and her husband of purchasing and enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015.
But the judges found this could not be proven during her trial in the eastern city of Halle, held behind closed doors because Messing was a minor at the time of the alleged events.
