A former Overbrook area resident who pled guilty to leading an all female battalion of the Islamic State Group has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for supporting a foreign terrorist organization. Forty two year-old AllisonFfluke-Ekren, admitted that she led the battalion in which roughly 100 women and girls, some as young as 10 years old, learned how to use automatic weapons and detonate grenades and suicide belts.
One of Fluke-Ekren’s daughters was among those who said she received such training. The daughter and Fluke-Ekren’s oldest son both urged the judge to impose a maximum sentence. They say they were physically and sexually abused by their mother. Fluke-Ekren denied the abuse and rationalized her actions during a weepy speech at Tuesday’s hearing.
