Spanish police on Tuesday arrest a woman suspected of recruiting pre-teen girls and teenagers to send to areas controlled by the Islamic State armed group in Syria.
An Interior Ministry statement says the woman, a Spaniard, was arrested in the city of Arrecife on the Canary Island of Lanzarote.
The ministry says the woman maintained contact with Islamic State militants in Syria, including a facilitator who gave her orders for recruiting girls and arranging their travel to Syria.
Girls and teens who she helped get to Syria ended up being sexually exploited, did domestic work and work in hospitals and had roles policing women, the statement says. A few joined the Islamic State as combatants, the statement says.
Authorities do not specify how many people the woman was suspected of recruiting but say police have been investigating her since 2014 in a probe overseen by the National Court in Madrid.
— AP
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