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J6 ‘Praying Grandma’ Sentenced

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We previously covered Rebecca Lavrenz, the “J6 Praying Grandma.” She was sentenced on Monday to a year of probation.

From The Colorado Sun. A Falcon woman convicted of breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, during the riot to disrupt the results of the 2020 presidential election was sentenced Monday to one year of probation.

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Rebecca Lavrenz, known as “J6 Praying Grandma” on social media, will also be required to pay a $103,000 fine and $500 in restitutiona spokesperson for the U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., said. …

In a Facebook post before the ruling, the 72-year-old great-grandmother, who operates a bed and breakfast northeast of Colorado Springs, offered no apologies for her crimes and said she felt the judge’s decision was in God’s hands.

“I am confident that his sentence will be what God, the Highest Judge, thinks is best to wake up our country,” Lavrenz wrote Monday morning. “Trusting and obeying God is my assignment for today.”

Lavrenz’s defense attorneys requested a one-year probation, no fine and no restitution, in court documents filed last week. They argued that she was a retired, first-time offender with “countless ties” to her community and commitments to her extended family. …

Federal prosecutors requested the judge order Lavrenz to serve 10 months in prison, followed by a year of supervised release and 60 hours of community service. The sentence was justified, prosecutors wrote in a letter to the judge filed last week, because Lavrenz has been “one of the loudest public voices calling the prosecution of January 6 riots a corrupt exercise.” …

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(Excerpt from The Colorado Sun. Photo Credit: Tyler Merbler from USA – DSC09254-2, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100214051)

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