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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Young is a former honor student, cheerleader and homecoming maid and still as dumb as a sack of hammers
Her fiance, Muhammad Dakhlalla,
Girls, there are many red flags as far as men you should avoid. This is a big one. Do not get involved with anybody named Muhammad.
She may not realize it now, but this arrest and prison term may well have saved her life. She was destined for a horrible fate in the middle east. She will get out of prison older and hopefully wiser, and still at least have her life.
Pretty girl. Obviously she blew a whole bunch of fuses in her brain if she attempted this.
Muhammed must be hung.
Everybody run......the homecoming maid has a bomb....
Now, she deserves it, but it’s in a way unfair at the same time.
She deserves it, because she was a turncoat to a people and ideology that want us dead.
It’s unfair, because this is a justifiably strict punishment at the same time Obama and Hillary are and will continue to import trained terrorists far more experienced and dedicated than she is, bless them with driver’s licenses, social security numbers, food benefits, lodging, and spending cash. They don’t pay any penalty, they just get rewarded, unless they successfully do damage and we catch them in our perpetual whack-a-mole that passes for security.
LOL. Well, you wonder how it was, that Muhammed was so charming, that she was willing to sacrifice everything for him and go to certain death in the middle east with him.
Pretty girl.
A taco short of a combo plate, but pretty.
Probably was convinced by her “fiance” who had a deal setup to sell her once they arrived.
Western women have been brainwashed for decades to drop trough at the sight of a savage, gangsta or playboy. Many bought it and pay for it daily.
Buy hey. Getting kidnapped by ISIS is WAY more exciting than the alternative: the boring “nice guy”
Cute. Shame she’s a moron.
Read the article. SHE convinced HIM to go for the whole ISIS escapade... so she’s not just some pawn that got manipulated.
Shey should have let them go and let the Russians kill them.
More likely to become a jailhouse lawyer and scream about the injustice of the prison system.
True, she deserves punishment but the US federal govt is loaded with jihad sympathizers and supporters who are much bigger threats to our national security.
12 years in prison will probably be a much easier life for her than she would have experienced in Turkey and wherever.
Equal application of the laws.
Nope, SHE convinced HIM to go on this “adventure”. Sometimes the new converts are much more fervent than people born into a religion (or murderous death cult, in this case).
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