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Associated PressWoman gets 8 months in hate note casePhilly Woman Gets 8 Months in Halfway House for Sending Hate Note to Arab-American Boss
MARYCLAIRE DALE
AP News
Oct 24, 2007 22:37 EDT
A woman who sent her Arab-American boss a threatening note that warned "Remember 9/11" and "You and your kids will pay" was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in a federal halfway house. Kia Reid, who described herself as Christian, donned gloves to craft the note from magazine clippings and then left it in Nina Timani's office, prosecutors said.
Timani said during a victim impact statement that she had spent months wondering who sent the anonymous note and fearing that her two young children would be harmed. Timani said she was stunned when an FBI investigation led to the 35-year-old Reid, whom she had mentored and befriended during nine years together at a Philadelphia hotel.
"How could you — when you have written that you want to tie my kids to the fence — play with my daughter at a ... picnic?" Timani asked. Reid said she sent the letter in anger, not in hatred, after she had been unable to get help with a workplace dispute at the airport Sheraton Suites Hotel.
"I thought all of the nonsense that was going on would stop," the mother of three teenage children explained Wednesday to U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter. Reid did not detail the nature of the work dispute. The Philadelphia woman was arrested in October 2006 after an FBI informant recorded her discussing the note.
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