A Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths.
Catherine Leavy pleaded guilty last year in federal court to charges including making a false bomb threat. Authorities say the threat was made in August 2022 as the hospital was facing an onslaught of threats and harassment.
The U.S. attorney’s office announced Monday that she had been sentenced on Thursday. Her attorney, Forest O’Neill-Greenberg, didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
The hospital became the focus of social media accounts, news outlets, and bloggers last year after they found informational YouTube videos published by the hospital about surgical offerings for transgender minors.
The caller said: “There is a bomb on the way to the hospital, you better evacuate everybody you sickos,” according to court documents. The threat resulted in a lockdown of the hospital. No explosives were found.
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Woman Gets Probation for Calling in Hoax Bomb Threat at Boston Children’s Hospital
- by: The Associated Press
- 2024-07-23
- Source:
The Epoch Times
- 07/23/2024
