Possibly mom doesn’t at all times know greatest…
Final week an elaborate, years-long catfishing and cyberbullying scheme lastly got here to a detailed — however the solutions police obtained weren’t what anybody was anticipating. Isabella County Prosecutor David Barberi broke down the case for The Morning Solar on Monday. In early 2021 Kendra Gail Licari‘s teen daughter began experiencing on-line bullying directed towards her and her then-boyfriend. The harassment obtained so dangerous, by December the household reported it to Beal County Colleges — which isn’t solely the place the younger girl attended faculty however ALSO her mother’s employer. Kendra was a women’ basketball coach there on the time.
The dad and mom of each the woman and her boyfriend cooperated with the college through the preliminary investigation, however any seek for the supply of the bullying got here up empty. In January of this yr, the college opted to report the incident to the police. A lot of the bullying didn’t happen on the district’s property, and college gadgets weren’t getting used — so actually this was a felony matter, not a disciplinary one. However even the specter of legislation enforcement didn’t cease the harassment.
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Each teenagers continued to be horrifically bullied, receiving 1000’s of texts and threatening messages between the 2 of them. It’s estimated generally the kids acquired as much as twelve messages per day every. Simply terrible.
It wasn’t till the FBI obtained concerned and began monitoring IP addresses did probably the most stunning bit of data get uncovered — the deal with from which the messages had been coming matched… Kendra’s. They had been capable of hint all the 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 might 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 considered 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 1000’s” of threatening texts had been acquired in all. The time she should 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 against the law, and a single rely of obstruction of justice for the cover-up.
We’re all questioning the identical factor — why!? Properly, Kendra apparently confessed to the whole lot 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 may very well be going through some heavy jail time if convicted, too. Utilizing a pc to commit against the law might get her a 10-year sentence, and her different two costs might rack up 5 years every.
Such a wild state of affairs and we’re left with extra questions than solutions… Reactions, Perezcious readers?
[Image via Columbia Pictures/Isabella County Jail]
