A former Boy Scout who was arrested while boarding a Yemen-bound ship in New Jersey so he could join ISIS in the war torn country was sentenced to 11 years in prison Thursday.
so he could join ISIS in the war-torn country was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison on Thursday.
“I cannot foresee the future, none of us can,” Engelmayer said as he imposed the 11-year sentence, adding that the non-profit workers who “deradicalized” Bradley “don’t have crystal balls.”, arguing Bradley was fully committed to joining the terrorist state when he was arrested — and wanted to do so to kill innocent Americans.“The defendant was dead set on taking up arms for ISIS in one way or another,” Assistant US Attorney Kaylan Lasky told Engelmayer at the hearing Thursday.
He also briefly read from letters submitted by Bradley’s friends and associates, including one from his former Scoutmaster, who noted the ISIS wannabe had achieved the highest rank of Eagle Scout during his time in the organization. At the mosque, the teen met Mohammed Delowar Hossain, a radical who “groomed and radicalized James,” Bradley’s lawyers wrote in a sentencing submission in the case.
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