BERLIN — A Syrian asylum-seeker has been convicted of three counts of attempted murder for throwing his children out of the window of a refugee home in Germany. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The dpa news agency says the 35-year-old Syrian, identified only as Hassan Z. in line with German privacy laws, was convicted Thursday at the Bonn state court.

Prosecutors say he threw the three children out of a second-floor window of the facility in February to punish his wife because, he claimed, she refused to obey him after the family moved to Germany.

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The children — aged 1, 5 and 7 at the time — survived but the mother says the two oldest are still experiencing health problems from the fall.

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