(Corona Press-Enterprise) The mother of one of the two shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack was sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years of probation on Thursday, Feb. 11, for shredding a document that her son had drawn up as a roadmap for the siege that killed 14 people and wounded 22 others.
Rafia Sultana Shareef, 67, of Corona, also known as Rafia Farook, pleaded guilty in March to one count of destroying evidence, a felony that could have left her serving up to 20 years in federal prison.
But under a plea agreement, she faced at most 18 months in custody when sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jesus G. Bernal in Riverside.
Before she was sentenced, Shareef apologized to the handful of victims and survivors of the attack by her son and daughter-in-law who were in attendance.
