Follow-up on NKU Right to Life Display Destruction
From Life News — No one went to jail, it appears that no one has a criminal record, and a few of the vandals who say they are “sorry” clearly still don’t get it:
Three pro-abortion students who took part in vandalizing a pro-life display set up by a campus group to memorialize those babies who have died from abortions have apologized. The Northern Kentucky University students wrote letters to the editor in the student newspaper expressing their views.
Though they say they are sorry for vandalizing the display, at least two of the students wrote that they still believe the cross memorial was inappropriate.
“Regarding the events of this past spring, I am regretful and sorry for any discomforting emotions my actions may have aroused,” NKU student Michelle Lynn Cruey wrote, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. “To the group who built the display, I do admire you for your convictions and apologize for taking down what you worked so hard to construct.”
Yet Cruey disclaimed her apology with a warning to the campus pro-life group Northern Right to Life saying they shouldn’t use “religious views” to promote “turning our backs” on women.
Six students joined Sally Jacobsen, a British literature professor in destroying the display. They trashed the crosses and ripped up a sign that accompanied them and their actions were caught on film by a reporter from the student newspaper.
The pro-abortion students were sentenced to perform community service in exchange for dropping charges against them. They were required to pay a $100 fine and issue the letters of apology.
It seems that a Michelle Lynn Cruey with a little power would do everthing she could to keep “religious views” out of the public square.
Professor Jacobsen, in my opinion, got off way too easy:
The court required Jacobsen to complete a mediation and she agreed to pay Northern Right to Life for the costs of the display. Jacobsen also made a $1,000 donation to the Madonna House, a Northern Kentucky crisis pregnancy shelter.
Jacobsen encouraged the students, members of one of her classes, to destroy the display and eventually led them in doing so. She later encouraged the students involved to avoid talking to the police and obtaining attorneys.
Jacobsen was suspended by Northern Kentucky University for the remainder of the school year and her classes given to other professors to complete. She has since retired and moved to Portland, Oregon.
Jacobsen will be right at home there.
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Previous Posts:
June 14 — NKU Abortion Vandalism Update: (Almost) Skating Away
April 20 — Prolife Display-Trashing Prof’s “Repentance†Appears to Be a Sham
April 18 — Very Good, But Not Good Enough
April 14 — University Intolerance Watch: Abortion Display Destroyed
