A North Carolina woman who brought her 14-year-old son into the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot was sentenced Friday to three months imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she finds it “very hard to comprehend” why Virginia Marie Spencer and her husband took their child into the building during a violent insurrection.
Summary
- Mom who took her child into Capitol during riot gets prisonFILE - Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
- A North Carolina woman who brought her 14-year-old son into the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, to three months imprisonment.
- Spencer’s husband, Christopher Raphael Spencer, also was arrested.
- ADVERTISEMENTVirginia Spencer pleaded guilty in September to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of 6 months imprisonment.
- Inside the Capitol, Christopher Spencer filmed a Facebook Live video as he and his wife briefly entered Pelosi’s office suite, prosecutors said.