BERLIN (AP) — 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 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 as a way to punish his wife because she refused to obey him after the family moved to Germany.

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.