The University of Texas Law student, Ho Ka Terence Yung, who pleaded guilty to cyberstalking an alumni interviewer after he was rejected from Georgetown University Law Center, was sentenced to almost 4 years in prison on Wednesday. Yung was arrested during his 3L year at UT for an 18-month campaign of cyberstalking that a federal judge described as “a disturbing mix of violence and sexual degradation that actually resulted in complete strangers approaching the victim’s home.”
As reported by Law.com, Georgetown Law issued a statement that it “appreciates the diligent efforts” of the law enforcement in the case.
The actions of Yung took against the interviewer who dinged him are chilling:
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[Yung] created personal ads online for the purpose of sending people with an interest in violent sexual activity to the victim’s house in the middle of the night, authorities said. He was successful in at least one instance. Police stopped a man responding to one of Yung’s ads outside the victim’s house on one occasion.
He also posted “violent and sadistic statements” about the victim online, prosecutors said in October, when Yung pleaded guilty. In one case, Yung posted statements falsely claiming that the Georgetown interviewer had been involved in abducting and raping an 8-year-old girl. He also circulated false information on the Internet implicating the victim in activities such as lynching and molestation.
As U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, David Weiss said last year, “The defendant’s conduct offers a disturbing example of the destructive potential of the Internet and social media.”
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