Even 'just enslaving' them is already worth those 10 years in prison.
The BBC article a bit wrongly states she was convicted for "being an accomplice to a warcrime", and portrays that as the cause for her sentence.
The original charge against her was for murder and war crimes (in the sense of being party to the wilful death of a protected civilian), which would have carried a mandatory lifetime sentence.
She was however
acquitted of those charges - but instead
sentenced for "assistance to negligent manslaughter through failure to render assistance" and "the enslavement of a protected civilian resulting in the death of that person". This carries a minimum 10-year mandatory sentence, but at the same time implies the death was not an intentional murder on the part of the person charged. If the child had
not died the enslavement would have carried a minimum 5-year mandatory sentence btw.
The original murder charge was too difficult to prove, especially since the child did not die in place but only after a relative of the husband brought her to a hospital in Fallujah (stated in court by the child's mother as the main witness, who did seek a conviction for murder), and the court to some extent acknowledged that she would have faced repercussions from her husband for interfering without permission with both slaves.
In addition the court acknowledged as part of the verdict that with this sentence she would also be sentenced for her membership in IS (for: membership in a foreign terrorist organization, assistance to attempted murder and assistance to attempted war crimes).
And don't forget, big chance that she will got remission, because of pressure by leftish human rights organisations.
Actually, more because under German law of course she is entitled to have a conviction reviewed by a higher court instance.
It should be noted that this was not the first conviction of a female IS member in Germany for a similar complex of crimes, and by far won't be the last.
