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No Trial For Accused Former BC Student

By Brian Hagen

07/13/2016

Colleen Carey

(KAIR)--The jury trial for a former Benedictine College student, accused of making a threat on social media, has been canceled.

That comes as Colleen Carey enters a plea in the case.

According to the Atchison County Attorney's Office, Carey recently entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of harassment by a telecommunications device.
She had originally been charged with aggravated criminal threat, and pled not guilty in January, leading to the scheduling of the jury trial that was supposed to begin on July 12.

Following the guilty plea, Carey was sentenced to one year in jail, but that was suspended, and she was instead ordered to serve 11-months of unsupervised probation.

Carey was arrested in November by Atchison Police after she allegedly posted a threat on the social media site Yik Yak. The post, which stated in part “RIP to all Benedictine Students,” led the Atchison-based college to go on lock down and to increase security on the campus.

Carey, 18-years-old at the time she made the post, was expelled from the Atchison-based Catholic college.

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