A new trial against a German Islamist extremist who was accused of letting a 5-year-old Yezidi girl die was set to begin on Wednesday in a Munich court.
The woman, named only as Jennifer W under German privacy laws, allegedly stood idly by in Iraq while a young Yazidi girl died in the midday heat.
The woman may face a longer period in prison after an appeals court ruled in March that a 10-year sentence handed to her in 2021 was too lenient.
The Munich Higher Regional Court has now scheduled eight days of hearings before a different criminal senate for the new trial.
The defendant joined Islamic State at the age of 23, married in Syria at a time when the terrorist organisation had occupied a large swathe of eastern Syria and north-western Iraq.
Her former husband chained up the girl in the courtyard of their home.
He is serving a life sentence in Germany after being found guilty of genocide by a Frankfurt court.
That sentence has been confirmed by the Karlsruhe court.
The man bought the girl and her mother after they had been abducted by Islamic State, a fate suffered by many Yezidis.
The girl died in August 2015, as the temperature in Falluja soared above 50 degrees Celsius.
The man had chained her to the bars of a window by her hands with her feet hanging in the air and she suffered heat stroke before he unchained her.
The German courts found that Jennifer W had failed to act to save the girl.
A new verdict could be handed down on Aug. 29.
The first trial started in April 2019 and lasted about two and a half years.
dpa/NAN
