Kansas woman who led all-female ISIS battalion sentenced to 20 years in prison

Allison Fluke-Ekren, a Kansas female who led an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria, was sentenced to twenty years in jail Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia.

In June, Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to supply assistance to ISIS, informing the judge she didn’t understand that a few of the 100 ladies she led and trained to utilize weapons and dynamites were kids, some as young as 10.

Throughout her years of dealing with ISIS and others to wage a violent jihad– taking a trip from Libya to Egypt and ultimately Syria– Fluke-Ekren talked about prepare for terrorist attacks in the United States and trained other ladies in ISIS on how to utilize AK-47s, grenades and suicide belts, according to her plea contract.

In the sentencing hearing Tuesday, district attorney Raj Parekh called Fluke-Ekren the “Empress of ISIS” who “brain cleaned girls and trained them to eliminate.”.

” She ended up being a distorted visionary for ISIS,” Parekh stated, informing the court Fluke-Ekren had an objective to produce the all-female battalion. “She was drawn in to death and damage.”.

Parekh likewise stated that Fluke-Ekren had actually consistently lied to the United States federal government and declined to comply, including that she might have been “a goldmine of intelligence.”.

Throughout Tuesday’s hearing, among her children, Leyla Ekren– who helped the United States federal government in its case versus her mom– affirmed that her mom had actually abused her and her brother or sisters and wed her off as a “sex servant.”.

” Remember what you resembled at 10 or 15,” Ekren stated, informing the judge that she was handed out as a bride-to-be to an ISIS fighter– who Ekren described several times as “my rapist”– when she was 13 so her mom might get more power in the terrorist company.

Her mom, Ekren stated, had a “desire for power” and “dark desires.”.

Ekren affirmed her mom abused her and her brother or sisters, explaining one circumstances where she put lice medication over Ekren’s face, burning her eyes. “I desired it to blind me” so individuals might see what her mom had actually done, she stated.

Fluke-Ekren affirmed that she was frightened by the allegations of kid abuse and declared they never ever occurred.

In testament to the court Tuesday, Fluke-Ekren painted herself as a caring mom and caretaker of whatever neighborhood she discovered herself in, informing the judge that she was dragged along by her spouses– numerous of whom passed away defending ISIS– to Libya and Syria.

Fluke-Ekren, in a long, tearful allocution, informed the judge that she had just skilled ladies on survival methods, weapon security and self-defense as Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian army started to surround Raqqa, where she lived.

” Do we blame ladies discovering to safeguard themselves?” she asked the court, including that the injury of war can not be comprehended by outsiders.

” Nobody can comprehend the scaries of a battle till you have actually strolled in its consequences,” Fluke-Ekren stated, recommending that these scaries and the worry she felt for herself, and her kids discussed much of her actions with ISIS.

Prior to bying far the sentence, the optimum Fluke-Ekren dealt with in the wake of her plea offer, District Judge Leonie Brinkema stated she did not discover her testament reputable, keeping in mind– to name a few things– that suicide vests are not protective weapons.

Her child and child, Gabriel, viewed in silence in the courtroom audience as their mom was sentenced. Her 6 small kids have actually been positioned in foster care, Fluke-Ekren informed the court.