German court convicts ex-IS member in death of Yazidi girl, 5

The defendant Iraqi Taha Al-Jumailly (L) is led into the courtroom for the sentencing in his trial. Picture: Frank Rumpenhorst/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

A former member of the Islamic State group was convicted by a German court on Tuesday of genocide and committing a war crime over the death of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl he had purchased as a slave and then chained up in the hot sun to die.

The Frankfurt regional court sentenced Taha Al-J, an Iraqi citizen whose full last name wasn’t released because of privacy rules, to life imprisonment and ordered him to pay the girl’s mother €50,000.