KCTV 5Woman pleads guilty to hate crime
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An Independence woman pleaded guilty Thursday to federal hate crime charges.
In 2006, Teresa Witthar reportedly vandalized and set a bi-racial man's mobile home one fire.
According to the indictment, she and two other men, Charles Wilhelm and David Martin, conspired to scare Nathaniel Reed into moving out of the Highland Manor Mobile Home Park, in part because of his race.
The three people allegedly wrote at least 15 racially derogatory slurs on the walls of his trailer and, two days later, set fire to the mobile home.
"Every American has the right to enjoy their home free from racially-motivated violence, threats and intimidation," said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, in a news release. "The Civil Rights Division will aggressively prosecute those who violate this right."
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