 group fighters ( AFP via Getty Images) 'She carved a path of terror, plunging her own children into unfathomable depths of cruelty by physically, psychologically, emotionally, and sexually abusing them,' First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh wrote in a sentencing memo. The Kansas native moved to Egypt in 2008 before settling in Syria in late 2012 or early 2013 with her husband who was in a leadership position in the Islamic State, responsible for training snipers. Family and acquaintances said it was she who pushed her then-husband into radicalisation and convinced him to take her and their children to Egypt. One of her daughters, who is expected to testify at the sentencing hearing, wrote in a letter to the court that her mother would beat her. A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ( REUTERS) 'My mother is a monster who enjoys torturing children,' Fluke-Ekren's oldest child, a son, wrote in another letter to the court. The abuse allegations are not directly related to the terrorism crimes, but they demonstrate the strength of her brutal character. It is alleged that she forced her 13-year-old daughter to marry an Islamic State fighter and she urged a woman to commit a suicide b){kind=link}
The Kansas native moved to Egypt in 2008 before settling in Syria with her husband who was in a leadership position in the Islamic State
Family members of a female American ISIS leader have detailed her horrific past including sexual and physical abuse of her own children, it has been alleged.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, brainwashed young girls and trained them to kill, a prosecutor said.
Prosecutors of the ISIS leader read out the abuse allegations from her family ahead of her sentencing, for providing material support to the Islamic State group, on Tuesday.
Ms Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in June after she admitted that she led an all-female battalion of the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria.