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A Kansas native who led an all-female Islamic State battalion when she lived in Syria has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum possible sentence, after her own children denounced her in court and detailed the horrific circumstances and abuse she heaped on them. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, admitted that she led the Khatiba…
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, admitted that she led a battalion in which roughly 100 women and girls — some as young as 10 years old — learned how to use weapons and detonate grenades and suicide belts.
Her own children denounced her in court.
Allison Fluke-Ekren was denounced by her children who suffered horrific abuse at her hands.
A US woman who led an all-female Islamic State battalion in Syria is sentenced to 20 years in prison after her own children denounce her in court and detail the abuse she heaped on them.