A 42-year-old woman from Kansas who was convicted of leading an ISIS battalion has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
November 1, 2022, 7:37 PMThis undated photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren.A Kansas mother who was convicted of leading an ISIS battalion was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday.to expressing interest in carrying out terrorist attacks in the United States in support of ISIS on six separate occasions between 2014 and 2017, according to court documents unsealed in February.
This undated photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren.Fluke-Ekren's son, according to court documents, said she physically abused him as a child. She also urged her daughter to delete messages shared between them to make sure she wasn't caught in Syria where she had taken her children and was evading U.S. law enforcement, according to audio recordings played in court. Her daughter in court documents said she would inflict pain on her children, picking out what each one disliked the most and inflicting that damage upon them, then getting off on the pleasure of doing so, court documents say.
Prosecutors say she provided ISIS members with services, which included lodging, translating speeches made by ISIS leaders, teaching extremist ISIS doctrine and training children on the use of weapons and suicide belts.Justice Department prosecutors said they believe the 20-year sentence is not enough.
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