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Student With ‘Homicidal Fantasies’ About Instructor Pleads Guilty to Cyberstalking

It went from violent emails – “Am I in the backseat of your car ready to slit your carotid artery?” – to making a false child-abuse report against a University of Missouri-Kansas City instructor, for a former student who pleaded guilty Thursday to cyberstalking, the FBI said in a press release.

Kenna Haight, 27, admitted to the federal court in Kansas City that her emails, sent despite “repeated requests from the instructor herself, UMKC administrators and law enforcement officers to stop,” would be “reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to the instructor or her family,” the FBI said.

The harassing emails, which started in October and continued even after the FBI interviewed Haight, culminated in a false report to the Missouri Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline in December:

As a result of that report, a social worker interviewed the instructor and the instructor’s children about the false complaint, causing them substantial emotional distress.

Other emails include:

“I keep having homicidal fantasies that me keep me up at night around you.”

“Am I underneath your car ready to cut your achilles heal? Are your lug nuts secure on your car??”

“…you may find yourself tied to your own bed in your own home begging for mercy. Or having your tongue cut out and your spinal cord cut paralyzing you for life so that you can never walk or speak again.”

Haight faces a mandatory-minimum one year in federal prison and up to five years without parole and a fine up to $250,000.

Read the full FBI release here.

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