Ali Shukri Amin, the 17-year-old Virginia teen who helped the Islamic State, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday after being convicted of using social media to raise funds for the terrorist group.
Amin, a former honor student at his high school in Manassas, pleaded guilty to the crime earlier this summer, according to The International Business Times.
"The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland," U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente said in a press release.
Amin's 11-year prison sentence will be followed by lifetime supervision. He used his Twitter account @AmreekiWitness, now suspended, to donate to extremists in Syria using Bitcoin. He also aided a friend in leaving the U.S. to join ISIS, according to Fox News.
"I became lost and caught up in something that takes the greatest and most profound teachings of Islam and turns them into justifications for violence and death," Amin wrote in a statement about his actions.
ISIS is known for using social media to target young people on the Internet.
"Today marks a personal tragedy for the Amin family and the community, as we have lost yet another young person to the allure of extremist ideology focused on hatred," Andrew McCabe, FBI Assistant Director, said in a statement, according to the New York Daily News. Amin would have graduated from high school this summer.
