[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] Emerson W. Begolly, a former jihadist webmaster whose rants under the screen name Abu Nancy called for the destruction of schools and day care centers, apologized Tuesday in a childlike voice shortly before he was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison.
"I'd like to sincerely apologize for the things that I said on the computer and for biting the policeman in the scuffle," Begolly, 23, told U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill. "I shamed my family."
Assistant federal public defender Marketa Sims argued that Begolly has Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum, and other mental health problems. She said the case stemmed from "a toxic brew of crime, politics, religion and mental health."
| We're going to have to bring back locked psychiatric institutions. |
| Sorry to hear about the mental health issues. Politics and religion he's allowed to have. But we'll still punish the crime part... |
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