{"id":380692,"date":"2018-10-12T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-student-charged-for-allegedly-making-false-anti-lgbt-threats-against-herself\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:51:32","slug":"prison-planet-com-student-charged-for-allegedly-making-false-anti-lgbt-threats-against-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-student-charged-for-allegedly-making-false-anti-lgbt-threats-against-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Student Charged For Allegedly Making False Anti-LGBT Threats Against Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zachary Petrizzo<\/strong>
Campus Reform
<\/em><\/a>October 12, 2018<\/p>\n

A member of student government at Ohio University has been charged with a misdemeanor after she allegedly made false statements to police about receiving threatening messages.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Ayers, who is a member of the OU student senate, was arrested Monday and charged by the Ohio University Police Department with three separate counts of \u201cmaking false alarms.\u201d It is alleged that Ayers falsely reported multiple threatening messages, including a \u201cdeath threat,\u201d which she claims was because of her being a member of the LGBTQ community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But an OU police department investigation revealed that Ayers\u2019 claims were false. The probe further uncovered that Ayers had \u201cplaced the messages herself, prior to reporting them,\u201d<\/strong> according to an OU police statement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAyers previously reported receiving a series of threatening messages, two of them in the Student Senate office, and one of them at her residence,\u201d the OU Police Department\u2019s statement reads, adding that, \u201csubsequent investigation by OUPD found that Ayers had placed the messages herself, prior to reporting them.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ayers, the former student senate appropriations commissioner, reported to the student senate last week that she received a note in the student senate office on September 27, which she said \u201cexpressed extreme hatred\u2026 because of who I am,\u201d according to an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0The Post<\/em>, a student-run newspaper on campus.<\/p>\n

The following week, October 6, Ayers thanked supporters on Twitter for being with her \u201cduring a pretty awful time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at OU, which Ayers attends, tweeted its support for the former student senator. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ayers alleged that she received additional death threats contained within messages on notes. The messages took aim at her identity as an LGBTQ community member, according to her account.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking \u2018false alarms\u2019 is a…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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