A woman from Kansas, USA, who trained more than 100 female troops for joining the Islamic State (IS) group was sentenced to a heavy sentence of 20 years in prison, NBC and CBS reported on the 2nd.
According to reports, a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Alison Fluke-Ekron, 42, to 20 years in prison and 25 years of probation on charges of serving as a recruit training instructor for ISIS.
Fluke-Ekron has been charged with training and providing supplies to more than 100 ISIS women in Syria between 2016 and this year. He admitted to her allegations at her trial, stating that he regretted her own choice.
He allegedly forced her daughter to marry an IS agent when she was 13, and encouraged her son to leave the United States and come to Syria to become an IS fighter.
Prosecutors charged him with child abuse, but he denied the charges.
He was arrested in Syria in January of this year and handed over to the FBI.
Fluke-Ekron, who worked as her original teacher in the United States, left for Egypt with her husband in 2008, where she joined IS. Her husband, who accompanied her at the time, became an IS sniper instructor, and was later killed in an airstrike in Syria.
Fluke-Ekron, who is also fluent in Arabic and Turkish, has since stayed in Libya and Iraq before moving to Raqqa in northern Syria in 2016.
Here, he trained female ISIS fighters in the women’s unit known as Kativa Nusaiba, how to use AK-47 rifles, grenades and self-destruct belts.
It was also revealed that he planned an attack on the US mainland.
The plan was even approved by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then head of the Islamic State, but was thwarted when he was killed in a US surprise attack.