A 21 year old woman from Petal, Mississippi was arrested over Facebook posts about her parents, and her charges were dismissed the next day, according to local reports.
The Jones County Sheriff’s Office arrested Kaileigh on Wednesday, June 10, on two counts of obscene communication. On June 5, she had posted on Facebook calling her parents racist and sharing messages she said came from them. She also said her mother physically assaulted her. On June 7, she posted again saying she does not condone violence toward her parents and asking people who were making threats to stop.
Her parents filed a complaint saying she shared their phone number and address online and that they then received death threats. Sheriff Joe Berlin said the arrest followed that complaint and that deputies had been patrolling near the parents’ home. An investigator with the department said the family had received a large number of threats from across the country.
On Thursday, June 11, Kaileigh was released from the Jones County Adult Detention Center and her attorney, Carlos Moore, announced the charges were dropped without a court hearing. “Justice has prevailed,” he wrote on Facebook. The accounts of both sides in the family dispute have not been independently confirmed.
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