ISIS COMFORT WOMAN SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS JAIL TIME FOR AID AND ABETTING THE TERROR GROUP BY HELPING AID IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF AND USING SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE FACEBOOK TO CONTACT AND SEND A LOVER OVER TO TURKEY AND FIGHT FOR IS–HEATHER ELIZABETH COFFMAN FROM NORTH CAROLINA–AND FACEBOOK IT SEEMS GETS NO INVESTIGATION FOR ITS ROLE

A Glen Allen woman who lied to the FBI about her support for the Islamic State was sentenced Monday morning to four and a half years in prison.

Heather Elizabeth Coffman, 30, was arrested in November and with credit for time served she will spend roughly four years behind bars under the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr.

Federal sentencing guidelines called for a term of 46 to 57 months in prison and Michael R. Gill, an assistant U.S. attorney, sought the stiffest punishment called for.

"At the time of her arrest she was very dangerous," argued Gill. Among other things, Coffman admitted to using social media to trying to help get a man she fell in love with over the Internet to join ISIS.

In arguing for a lesser prison term, Mary Maguire, one of Coffman's lawyers, told Gibney, "I think she never understood the gravity of what she was doing until it was too late."

"She clearly got involved with something that was way over her head," added Maguire.

But Gill countered that Coffman admitted she had seen ISIS photos of battlefield dead and beheading videos.

"She went into this with her eyes wide open," said Gill.

Asked by the judge if she had seen a beheading video, Coffman admitted she had.

In pleading guilty in February to making a false statement involving international terrorism, Coffman admitted that last year she used Facebook accounts under different names to show her support for ISIS.

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