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An Iraqi couple is charged in Germany with keeping and abusing Yazidi girls as slaves (abcnews.go.com)

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The were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria between October 2015 and December 2017, the prosecutor said in a statement. They allegedly kept a 5-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave starting in late 2015, and a 12-year-old from October 2017.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe we should bring back public floggings for certain cases, I feel like a certain level of societal pressure on people to not be awful is a good thing