ISIS recruiter ‘Umm Nutella’ sentenced to 19 years in jail after courtroom tossed ‘shockingly low’ punishment

The New Yorker who joined ISIS nicknamed “Umm Nutella” was sentenced to almost 20 years in jail Wednesday — after the ISIS recruiter’s preliminary “shockingly low” 48-month sentence was tossed by an appeals courtroom.

Sinmyah Ceasar, 30, will now spend 19 years behind bars following the stiff sentence set by Brooklyn Federal Courtroom Decide Kiyo Matsumoto — after she was infamously sentenced to simply 4 years in jail by the late Decide Jack Weinstein in 2019.

“With at present’s sentence, Sinmyah Amera Ceasar, an unrepentant ISIS recruiter, shall be incarcerated for a major time period to guard Individuals right here and overseas from her violent extremism,” United States Lawyer John Durham stated in a press release.

Weinstein had argued that the Brooklyn girl simply wanted schooling and psychological well being remedy to “save her as a human being” from her terrorism ties — however Ceasar “nearly instantly” began reconnecting with ISIS after serving her gentle sentence whereas out on supervised launch in July 2020, prosecutors have stated.

She had confronted as much as life in jail after pleading responsible to expenses of offering materials help to ISIS and obstruction of justice.

Ceasar — whose conflict identify “Umm Nutella” interprets to “Mom of Nutella” — was out for 13 months when the 2nd US Circuit Courtroom of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s choice in August 2021, calling it a “shockingly low” penalty — and ordered that Ceasar be re-sentenced.

However Ceaser tried to make a run for it, blowing off a court-ordered look on Aug. 25, 2021, after the appeals choice — slicing off her ankle monitoring bracelet in an try and flee to Russia to keep away from going again to jail, federal prosecutors have stated.

She was captured days later whereas hiding out at an auto physique store in New Mexico.

Federal prosecutors stated she had a need to journey and be a part of the fear group and “die as a martyr” — which she proved by going so far as attempting to marry ISIS wannabe Fareed Mumuni, who’s serving a 25-year sentence for planning to assault an FBI agent.

Prosecutors have been in search of a sentence of 30 to 70 years in jail.

Ceasar’s lawyer, Deirdre von Dornum of the Federal Defenders of New York, stated in a press release that she was disenchanted with Ceasar’s punishment, whereas acknowledging that the lady suffers from psychological well being points.

“Ms. Ceasar’s sentence demonstrates the utter failure of the federal felony justice system,” Dornum informed The Put up Thursday. “Missing the psychological well being and de-radicalization sources everybody – from the FBI to psychological well being specialists – agrees she wants, the courtroom resorted to “incapacitating” a traumatized younger girl who has by no means harm anybody however herself.”

Ceasar’s attorneys have stated that the ISIS sympathizer was raped as a baby and suffered from PTSD.

“This sentence is a becoming and significant consequence for a lady who assisted ISIS in recruiting, squandered the prospect for redemption by exposing herself as cooperating with the U.S. authorities, and persevered in selling extremist ideologies to potential new recruits on-line,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated.