FBI captures woman who stalked her own daughter online

A teenager suffered virtual bullying for a year. In recent days, the FBI revealed to him that his own mother was the one behind the screen writing how much barbarity could imagine his head.

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This is Kendra Gail Licari, from Michigan, United States, who was accused as the main suspect of sending threatening words to her daughter through text messages, social networks and emails.

As reported by the local newspaper ‘Daily Star’, Licari had used a VPN (virtual private network) in an attempt to hide the IP of the device from where he sent the hate messages. In addition, she used adolescent slang to incriminate minors from the affected person’s social circle.

Initially, the young woman went to her mother after the abuse. Although the woman herself reported the facts to the local police, the entity could not do anything about it because, according to what they say, they did not have enough resources to take action digitally.

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The minor received about twenty threatening messages a day. (Reference image).

However, everything changed when the FBI took up the case, because in a couple of days they already had clarity on the identity of the alleged stalker. They discovered that the messages came from Licari’s phone, who confessed during an interrogation that he was behind the campaign of harassment against his daughter.

“When the case first came to our office, it was strange and almost hard to believe.” Isabella County District Attorney David Barberi told the Daily Star.

“We are talking about several hundred text messages, more than 1,000 pages of discovery in the case”he added.

Removed from office, but released

It turns out that Licari was an active teacher at the high school her daughter attended. The moment it was learned that she was the author of the threatening messages, the Beal City School Superintendent William Chilma immediately removed her from her duties.

However, the woman was released after paying a bail of 5 thousand dollars (23 million pesos). He is expected to appear in court on December 29, when prosecutors determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring the case to trial.

It is prudent to highlight that the person involved has already been accused in the past of abusing a minor and obstructing the due process of justice, for which reason she could receive a 5-year prison sentence, plus 10 for using a computer to commit a crime.

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