(CBS) The Kansas woman who admitted she discussed an attack on an American college and trained over 100 fighters in an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria, 42-year-old Allison Fluke-Ekren, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison and 25 years of supervised release.
Addressing court in Alexandria, Va., she said she “regrets her choices.” Fluke-Ekren, described in court documents as a mother and teacher-turned-ISIS battalion leader, pleaded guilty earlier this year to providing material support to the terrorist network.
Prosecutors described her admitted actions as “monstrous,” writing in a pre-sentence filing that Fluke-Ekren “brainwashed young girls and trained them to kill” after leaving her own family to “pursue a career in terrorism” in Libya.
