American who helped Islamic State asks for leniency

NEW YORK (AP) — An American woman who helped in online recruitment of Islamic State fighters is seeking leniency in her New York terrorism case over the objections of prosecutors who say she’s still a threat.
Defense attorneys for Sinmyah Amera Caesar argued at a sentencing hearing on Tuesday in a federal court in New York City that she’s a lost soul who should get a term of time served — about two years.
Prosecutors told a judge that Caesar burned them by secretly gettin