A British mother who took her toddler to Syria and joined the Islamic State terrorist group was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday after becoming the first British woman to be convicted after returning home.
Tareena Shakil, 26, was found guilty by a court in Birmingham, central England of ISIS membership and encouraging terrorism in posts on Twitter before leaving Britain.
"You were well aware that the future which you had subjected your son to was very likely to be indoctrination and thereafter life as a terrorist fighter," Judge Melbourne Inman said.
The court heard that Shakil was radicalized online and in October 2014 told her family she was going to Turkey for a beach holiday.
Instead, she crossed the border into Syria and went to ISIS stronghold Raqqa.
In January 2015, after repeatedly looking up "I want to leave ISIS" on the Internet, she and her son traveled by road to the Turkish border.
