An 84-year-old nun was sentenced to 35 months in prison Tuesday for breaking into a nuclear facility. n May, a federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, found Sister Megan Rice; Greg Boertje-Obed, 57; and Michael Walli, 63, guilty of destroying U.S. government property and causing more than $1,000 in damage to federal property. The incident began before dawn on July 28, 2012, when the three cut through a chain-link fence surrounding the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. They then walked nearly a mile, cutting through three more fences and breaching what was supposed to be the most tightly secured uranium processing and storage facility in the country. it was not until hours later that a guard finally confronted the activists who, by then, had hoisted banners, spray-painted messages and splattered human blood on a building that houses highly enriched uranium. "They're at peace about this. They're peacemakers, and they knew that they risked this," Joe Quigley, attorney for Walli, "Nobody is happy to go jail, but they understand."
This is a very odd situation. They're nuns, elderly, and considered "peacemakers". All of these things make them very unlikely criminals. If three elderly nuns can break into "the most tightly secured" nuclear plant, can anyone?
I find this really shocking. Nuns? Really? That is so peculiar.
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