![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/mother-who-brainwashed-abused-and-trained-ten-year-old-girls-to-be-isis-killers-is-jailed/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000314752423_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqp9c5WVj0Jr0gvyuux5WeKGo7J_TCyqxZ1Oc-nHCR2rk.jpeg&description=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 Nusaybah, a battalion in which roughly 100 women and girls - some as young as 10 years old - learned how to use automatic weapons and detonate grenades and suicide belts. One of Fluke-Ekren's daughters was among those who said she received such training. The daughter and Fluke-Ekren's oldest son, now adults, both urged the judge to impose the maximum sentence. They said they were physically and sexually abused by their mother, and described the mistreatment in detail in letters to the court. Fluke-Ekren denied the abuse. The daughter, Leyla Ekren, said "lust for control and power" drove her mother to drag the family half way across the world to find a terrorist group that would allow Fluke-Ekren to flourish, during a victim impact statement she gave at the hearing. She said her mother became skilled at hiding the abuse she inflicted. She described a circumstance where her mother poured an off-brand lice medication all over her face as a punishment and it started to blister her face and burn her eyes. Fluke-Ekren then tried to wash the chemicals off her daughers's face, but Leyla Ekren resisted. "I wanted people to see what kind of person she was. I wanted it to blind me," she said as her mother sat a few feet away, resting her head on her hand with a look of disbelief. After her children testified, she glared in their direction. Fluke-Ekren's status as a US-born woman who rose to a leadership status in the Islamic State makes her story unique among terror cases. Prosecutors say the abuse she inflicted on her children from a young age helps explain how she went from an 81-acre (33-hectare) farm in Overbrook, Kansas, to an Islamic State lea){kind=link}
Allison Fluke-Ekren was jailed ‘brainwashing, abusing and training’ young girls including her own daughter
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 Nusaybah, a battalion in which roughly 100 women and girls – some as young as 10 years old – learned how to use automatic weapons and detonate grenades and suicide belts.
One of Fluke-Ekren’s daughters was among those who said she received such training. The daughter and Fluke-Ekren’s oldest son, now adults, both urged the judge to impose the maximum sentence.
They said they were physically and sexually abused by their mother, and described the mistreatment in detail in letters to the court. Fluke-Ekren denied the abuse.