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 five-year-old Yazidi girl he had purchased as a slave and then chained up in the hot sun to die.
Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook and Twitter
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 euros ($57,000).
German news agency dpa quoted the presiding judge, Christoph Koller, saying it was the first conviction worldwide over a person's role in the systematic persecution by ISIS of the Yazidi religious minority.
The defendant's lawyers had denied the allegations made against their client.
His German wife was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison over the girl's death.
