Who is Allison Fluke-Ekren? Kansas mom who led ISIS battalion in Syria gets maximum sentence of 20 years
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA: A Kansas mother who oversaw an all-female Islamic State battalion while residing in Syria was given the maximum punishment of 20 years in prison after being exposed in court by her own children who described the awful conditions and torture she subjected them to. According to the court document, the 42-year-old Allison Fluke-Ekren confessed that she was the leader of the Khatiba Nusaybah, a battalion of about 100 girls and women, some of whom were as young as 10, who were taught how to operate automatic weapons, detonate grenades, and deploy suicide belts.
Several others, including one of Fluke-Ekren's daughters, claimed to have received this training. Both the daughter and Fluke-Ekren's eldest son urged the judge to give the harshest punishment possible. In letters to the court, they claimed that their mother had physically and sexually assaulted them, describing the torture in horrifying detail. The abuse was refuted by Fluke-Ekren. Leyla Ekren, the daughter, stated during a victim impact statement she gave at the hearing that her mother's desire for control and power caused her to drag the family across the globe in search of a terrorist organization that would allow Fluke-Ekren to grow.
