A court in Sweden on Friday sentenced a mother to six years in jail for allowing her son to fight for the militant Islamic State (IS) group as a child soldier in Syria.
The 49-year-old was convicted of aggravated war crimes, violations of international law and for “not stopping her son, then aged 12 to 15, from being recruited and used as a child soldier for IS in the armed conflict in Syria,” the Stockholm district court said in a statement.—AP
