Posted on 04/22/2015 3:58:05 AM PDT by markomalley
A 16-year-old Muslim boy from York – who was “seduced” by the terrorist group ISIS and plotted to kill American troops in North Carolina – will spend up to the next five years in a juvenile prison after being sentenced Tuesday on a gun charge.
The teenager, an American citizen whose family is from Syria, wanted to join the terror organization and was scheming with a Muslim militant from North Carolina to rob a gun store near Raleigh, with plans of killing soldiers in retribution for American military action in the Middle East.
The Enquirer-Herald does not name juvenile defendants.
Prosecutors in Family Court asked for the maximum sentence of juvenile jail until age 21, because the teen was part of plans to kill Americans in the U.S. and “to go to the Middle East and wage jihad.”
The teen was “wholeheartedly sincere in his beliefs, and we are very concerned for the safety of the community and the country,” 16th Circuit Solicitor Kevin Brackett said. “He had a plan to randomly shoot American soldiers.”
The boy “embraced the ideology” of ISIS, Brackett said, and his intent was to “join this violent, guerrilla, insurgent movement.”
Through social media and other contacts, Brackett said, the teen was “seduced by the radical ideology known in the Middle East as ISIS. He wanted to join.”
After police found the boy with the gun in February, he admitted to York police detectives and FBI agents that through social media after the death of his father, he was part of a multistate plot to kill U.S. troops.
The teen, who is is 6-feet-4-inches tall and weighs 230 pounds, used to attend York Comprehensive High School. Police searched his home and found ISIS-related materials on his computer.
The boy later admitted that his plan was to arm himself and join fighters in Syria after he and the militant man – charged in North Carolina but not named in court – had used automatic weapons to gun down troops at one of many military bases in central and eastern North Carolina.
The teen apologized in court Tuesday, saying that after his father’s death, his life spiraled out of control. He claimed to have “no intention” to carry out the plans.
“I just regret it,” the boy said in court. “If I get out, I will be a completely different person. I want to change everything I did and go back and have a nice life.”
The teen’s lawyer, 16th Circuit Public Defender B.J. Barrowclough, said the teen cooperated with police and pleaded guilty but initially wanted to go to Syria to fight with rebels because of atrocities committed against his family by the ruling regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The teen’s intent was not to join the ISIS terror squads, Barrowclough said, but to avenge Syrian government mass murder.
The boy agreed initially to the plot with the Muslim man to rob the gun store in North Carolina and kill soldiers, Barrowclough said, but later decided he would not go through with killings in America.
Family Court Judge Michael Holt of Darlington County imposed the maximum sentence for juveniles, meaning the boy will be in prison until he turns 21.
More invasive species terrorism.
Under the Jail!
If he only had a good paying job...
We have been keeping a eye on the place. I would like to know this kids address,cause I bet you he's living in Islamaville
This guy will make a great US citizen when he gets out in 5 years.
Your = YORK
kill it. it cannot be reformed
We have to remember that Muslims are allowed to lie to infidels with impunity. His statements in court are not to be believed. This kid should be deported after serving his sentence, but I see nothing to indicate that will happen. we will hear from him again in 5 years and it won’t be good.
Rabid dogs need killing.
Right next door to where I grew up.
It’s sure a good thing the Enquirer-Herald didn’t drop any hints as to the identity of the unnamed identify juvenile:
* Father is dead
* Family from Syria
* Radicalized Moslem
* Used a public defender, so not much money
* 16 years old
* 220 pounds
* 6 ft 4 inches tall
* From York
* Attended York Comprehensive High School.
I don’t think he is “Bob Jones.”
Strip him of his citizenship and put him on a one-way flight to Damascus.
This on the day that Gov. Haley voices her support for bringing Somali refugees to Spartanburg. When this happens in conservative states, how can there be any hope for liberal states.
http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article19201113.html#emlnl=Morning_Newsletter
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