WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A Wichita man who admitted threatening workers of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has been sentenced to federal prison.
The U.S. attorney’s office in says 22-year-old Christopher M. Thompson was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day on one count of making a threat.
Operation Rescue Vice President Cheryl Sullenger says that Thompson threatened to rape her and her daughters and then murder her family. She says in a news release she takes no pleasure in his incarceration, but believes it is a just sentence.
Sullenger says this is a step toward restoring the sense of security he took from families.
His attorney says Thompson never intended to carry out the threats, which were sparked a 2005 story he found online that Operation Rescue had written about his grandmother.
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