Published January 13, 2015
Two teenage girls have been sentenced to probation after guilty pleas in the case of threatening tweets sent after a guilty verdict in a high-profile Ohio rape case.
The tweets sent in March had threatened homicide and bodily harm against a girl raped by two high school football players.
The attorney for one of the girls said Thursday that charges of intimidation of a witness and aggravated menacing were dropped.
Attorney Sara Gasser says the 16-year-olds admitted to a single misdemeanor charge of telecommunications harassment and were placed on six months' probation.
The tweets were sent March 17. That's the day a judge found the two Steubenville High School football players guilty of raping the West Virginia girl after an alcohol-fueled party last summer.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/2-girls-plead-guilty-in-twitter-threats-after-ohio-football-players-were-convicted-of-rape