He enslaved a mother and her five-year-old daughter: she was chained to the baby and let her die of thirst under the sun

Taha A.-J. He was arrested last Wednesday at Frankfurt Airport. According to the accusation against him, he joined in March 2013 the Islamic State (ISISI) and in the summer of 2015 bought a woman and her five-year-old daughter among a group of Yezidi dams. The girl was left to die of thirst as punishment.

After buying his victims, the 27-year-old transferred them to a house he shared with other women, Jennifer W., a German woman who has already started a process in Munich for war crimes, murder by default and militancy in a terrorist organization abroad.

Both preserved mother and daughter as slaves and gave them little to eat and drink. Taha forbade them to practice their own religion and forced them to convert to Islam, read the Qur'an, and pray regularly.

When they left the house, the mother had to wear a veil and the little girl, cover her head. Both were frequently beaten, sometimes with a lot of violence.

Also as punishment, the accused chained the baby to the outsidein the midst of the sweltering heat, and that she dies of thirst.

The defendant was arrested in May 2019 in Greece, where he has since been arrested for extradition to Germany. He is suspected of having committed genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes against persons and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of exploitation.

The lawsuit against Jennifer W.

Jennifer W., 28 years old German converted to IslamHe left his country in August 2014 to join the ranks of Islamic terrorism and arrived in Iraq via Turkey first and Syria later.

Until September 2015, he was part of the so-called "fundamentalist moral police" of Mosul and Fallujah (both in Iraq), where his task was to: watch that women Dress according to the canons ordered by the terrorist group.

The woman was arrested after going to the embassy of Germany in Turkey to renew her passport, after which the Turkish authorities extradited her to Germany.

The lawsuit against Jennifer W. is the first to be opened in Germany against a former alleged member of the IS, returned to the country.

The mother of the deceased daughter is represented, as a private prosecution, by activist and lawyer Amal Clooney.