BERLIN: On Tuesday, a German woman who joined the ISIS goes on trial accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old "slave" girl die of thirst. It is to be noted that Prominent London-based human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is part of the team representing the dead Yazidi girl's mother, but Clooney was not expected to appear in the Munich trial on Tuesday. Here it is to be noted that the defendant, identified only as Jennifer W., 27, faces life in jail if found guilty of committing a war crime, murder, membership in a terrorist organisation and weapons offences.

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According to Source report, it is found that the defendant, herself the mother of a small girl, had incriminated herself while talking at length to an undercover FBI informant in a bugged car. German prosecutors allege her ISIS husband had purchased the Yazidi child and her mother -- a co-plaintiff in the trial -- as household "slaves" whom they held captive while living in then ISIS-occupied Mosul, Iraq, in 2015. The trial will start at 0730 GMT under tight security in a Munich court that deals with state security and terrorism cases, with hearings initially scheduled until September 30.

Prosecutors charge "After the girl fell ill and wet her mattress, the husband of the accused chained her up outside as punishment and let the child die an agonising death of thirst in the scorching heat, The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl". German media said the defendant's husband, Taha Sabah Noori Al-J., had beaten both the Yazidi mother and child, and that Jennifer W. allegedly also once held a pistol to the woman's head.  

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