Sinmyah Amera Ceasar, 30, a U.S. citizen who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced on Wednesday to 230 months in prison for recruiting people to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, obstructing justice and failure to appear in court.
ISIS is a U.S.-designated terror organization. Ceasar pleaded guilty to the three charges in 2017, 2019 and 2022, respectively.
“Today’s resentencing marks the end of a righteous journey that began a decade ago,” stated Sue Bai, the head of the U.S. Justice Department’s national security division.
“Terrorist organizations like ISIS rely on recruiters like Ceasar to attract, indoctrinate and enlist new followers,” Bai said.
John Durham, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, stated that Ceasar, who used the alias Mother of Nutella in her social media postings, “an unrepentant ISIS recruiter, will be incarcerated for a significant period of time to protect Americans here and abroad from her violent extremism.”
“Even after pleading guilty to providing material support to ISIS, the defendant continued to support terrorists, obstructed justice and fled from prosecution,” Durham added.