Sunday, October 28, 2007

Hate Note = Jail Time

A woman who sent her Arab-American boss a threatening note was sentenced to eight months at a federal halfway house Wednesday.

Kia Reid sent her boss a note with cut out letters from magazines, warning "Remember 9/11" and "you and your kids will pay."

Reid's Boss, Nina Timani said she spent months wondering who sent the anonymous note and fearing her two children would be harmed.

"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 after she was unable to get help with a workplace at the airport Sheraton Suite Hotel where they work.

Reid, of Philadelphia, was arrested in October 2006 after an FBI informant recorded her discussing the note.

She later pleaded guilty to one count of sending a threatening note.

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