(Deutsche Welle) A Frankfurt court on Monday handed a German woman a two-year suspended prison sentence due to her past involvement with the so-called “Islamic State” (IS).
“She promoted the organization from within,” the presiding judge said of the 33-year-old woman from the [central German state of] Hesse as he handed down the sentence.
Woman ‘grossly violated’ motherly duties
According to prosecutors, the woman traveled to Syria during the spring of 2016 — along with her two sons — to join the terror group. At the time IS had seized control of vast swathes of Syria and Iraq, as it pushed ahead with its plan of establishing a caliphate.
The woman, named Laura H, was also accused of being in breach of her duty to care for her children.
