Posted on 08/11/2016 1:18:29 PM PDT by blam
August 11, 2016
Jaelyn Young in 2012. (Melanie Thortis/The Vicksburg Evening Post via AP)
A Mississippi woman who once sought to disguise a planned journey to join the Islamic State group as her honeymoon was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 12 years in prison on a terrorism charge.
Vicksburg native Jaelyn Young broke down in heavy sobs during her sentencing by U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock. Young pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
Young had faced up to 20 years in prison.
Her parents pleaded for leniency at Thursday's hearing. Young, amid sobs, said she was ashamed of her actions.
Her fiance, Muhammad Dakhlalla, pleaded guilty March 11 to a similar charge and is set to be sentenced Aug. 24. Prosecutors have said Young, who converted to Islam while studying at Mississippi State University, had prodded Dakhlalla into the plan.
The two were arrested in 2015 before boarding a flight from Columbus, Mississippi, with tickets for Istanbul, Turkey.
"I found the contacts, made arrangements, planned the departure," Young had written in a farewell letter to her family. "I am guilty of what you soon will find out."
Young and Dakhlalla were among a number of people arrested around the country for Islamic State sympathies. Like many, authorities said, they had developed views supporting the Islamic State in part by watching online videos and were arrested after social media posts attracted the attention of the FBI.
The daughter of a school administrator and a police officer who served in the Navy reserve, Young is a former honor student, cheerleader and homecoming maid at Vicksburg's Warren Central High School.
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does she even know what they force young women to go thru?....mutilation surgery on youknowwhat....
if you can send your kids to private school or Catholic school it helps and then onto a very private college in a very conservative setting...away from the perverts and the islamists if you can find such a place...
Good advice!
I’ll be reserving my copy.
If pride and honour with love for a country is taught, then it should act as a bulwark against treason. Love for one's country does not mean in a democracy, that one cannot criticise it's faults. Could the guilt lie with much of the left?
To digress- we just learn in Strathroy, Ontario, a youth has died. He was intercepted by the RCMP with a homemade bomb in his vehicle. He was a Isis convert. Old stock Canadian. The FBI tipped off the RCMP. They were doing surveillance, otherwise he might have been successful. Material showed radicalization and desire to blow up Canadians.
Yeah, such a waste.
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Looks like she had everything going for her. Why join a group who is dedicated to killing people like her?
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Must be that ‘affluenza’ going around. \s
I, for one, believe the problem is simple: We are no longer a nation of Law.
IIRC, this *used* to be this was called Treason. 12yrs?? She and little turban boy should be publicly hung. What does anyone expect when our OWN govt is themselves aiding\abetting our enemies, letting the hoard through the gate....and We do *NOTHING*.
Now We get to give these POS 3 sq, a room, h’care and they continue to foment their hate\resentment for 12 yrs (or less for ‘good behavior’). If/when they DO ‘do’ something after that time, there is NO accountability of govt for the killings\maiming, just an “Oops”.
"ITV News reported Sultana had become disillusioned with life under IS and was planning to escape and return to Britain when she was killed."
*** “Muhammed must be hung” ***
She would probably be safer now if he was “hanged”
It was a skilled double entendre. At least someone got it. :)
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