Saturday, December 17, 2022

Michigan Woman Cyberbullies Daughter

There is a BB King song/lyric titled "Nobody loves me but my mother/And she could be jiving too!". It's funny because if there's one person that most people think will be in their corner when times get tough, it's usually their mother, the person who brought them into the world. 

I thought of this lyric when I ran across the below story about a Mt. Pleasant, Michigan woman. Sometimes you can't even trust your mother.

A Mt. Pleasant woman accused of engaging in a sophisticated catfishing campaign of harassment that targeted two teens — one her daughter — was charged with five crimes, including one that accused her of attempting to frame another student.

Kendra Gail Licari, 42, was charged Monday afternoon with two counts of stalking a minor, two counts of using a computer to commit a crime and one count of obstruction of justice. The obstruction charge alleges that Licari attempted to frame another minor for her actions during the investigation. Licari and the mother of the other student worked with school officials to figure out the source of the harassment, David Barberi, Isabella County Prosecutor, said Monday.

Licari was arrested Monday after an investigation that started with a report to officials with the Beal City Schools of a cyberbullying complaint involving Licari’s daughter and the boy she was seeing at the time. Licari’s daughter attends Beal City Schools. While law enforcement assistance was officially requested in January, family members said that the harassing messages started early in 2021, Barberi said.

Barberi said on Monday that his office compiled 349 pages of harassing text and social media messages during the course of the investigation. The FBI was finally able to lock down the IP addresses used to send the messages and realized they were Licari's, Barberi said Monday. When confronted, Licari reportedly made a full confession, Barberi said. What is unknown is why Licari would have done it.

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This is like that moment in a horror movie when people realize the bad guy is inside the house.