Maybe mom doesn’t all the time know finest…
Last week an elaborate, years-lengthy catfishing and cyberbullying scheme lastly got here to an in depth — however the solutions police obtained weren’t what anybody was anticipating. Isabella County Prosecutor David Barberi broke down the case for The Morning Sun on Monday. In early 2021 Kendra Gail Licari‘s teen daughter started experiencing online bullying directed toward her and her then-boyfriend. The harassment got so bad, by December the family reported it to Beal County Schools — which is not only where the young woman attended school but ALSO her mom’s employer. Kendra was a women’ basketball coach there on the time.
The mother and father of each the woman and her boyfriend cooperated with the varsity in the course of the preliminary investigation, however any seek for the supply of the bullying got here up empty. In January of this 12 months, the varsity opted to report the incident to the police. Most of the bullying didn’t happen on the district’s property, and college units weren’t getting used — so actually this was a legal matter, not a disciplinary one. But even the specter of regulation enforcement didn’t cease the harassment.
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Both teenagers continued to be horrifically bullied, receiving hundreds of texts and threatening messages between the 2 of them. It’s estimated typically the teenagers acquired as much as twelve messages per day every. Just terrible.
It wasn’t till the FBI obtained concerned and began monitoring IP addresses did essentially the most stunning bit of knowledge get uncovered — the deal with from which the messages have been coming matched… Kendra’s. They have been capable of hint the entire messages again to the woman’s mother! Now she was the prime suspect within the case she reported within the first place.
Licari allegedly used particular software program known as a “cloaker” to cover her id so she may ship these messages with out being caught. She used a number of telephone numbers and space codes, she even allegedly tried to make it appear to be certainly one of her daughter’s classmates was the supply of the bullying!
Prosecutor Barberi says the FBI compiled 349 PAGES price of messages Licari had despatched to her daughter and the younger boy, stating “tens of thousands” of threatening texts have been acquired in all. The time she will need to have spent on this… It’s unfathomable.
The malicious mother was arrested and charged with two counts of stalking a minor, two counts of utilizing a pc to commit a criminal offense, and a single rely of obstruction of justice for the duvet-up.
We’re all questioning the identical factor — why!? Well, Kendra apparently confessed to every little thing after being arrested, however one factor she nonetheless didn’t give was a motive. Chilling. We hope the poor woman will get a greater reply than the police did…
The mom was launched on a $5,000 bond final week and is due again in court docket on December 29 to see if there’s sufficient proof to proceed with a trial. She could possibly be going through some heavy jail time if convicted, too. Using a pc to commit a criminal offense may get her a ten-12 months sentence, and her different two prices may rack up 5 years every.
Such a wild scenario and we’re left with extra questions than solutions… Reactions, Perezcious readers?
[Image via Columbia Pictures/Isabella County Jail]
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