Jamie Paulin Ramirez pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorist and was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
Ramirez, 35-years-old and originally from Colorado, was sentenced by Chief Judge of the Federal Court Petrese Tucker who also handed Colleen LaRose her 10 year sentence on Monday, Reuters reported.
LaRose introduced Ramirez Ali Charaf Damache, an alleged Irish terrorist ring leader, in 2009 and two months later Ramirez left Colorado with her 6-year-old son and flew to Ireland, converted to Islam and married Damache, Reuters reported.
Ramirez's attorney claims she had little knowledge or understanding of the Islamic religion and suffers from low self esteem which led her to take such actions, according to Reuters. Ramirez said thought she would only be acting as a wife to Damache as he trained for Islamist attacks.
But according to prosecutors, "by the time Ramirez traveled to join Damache in Ireland, she knew and intended that her travel and presence overseas would provide material support to Damache's terrorist conspiracy," Reuters reported.
After being arrested with Damache in 2010, Ramirez was nick named "Jihad Jamie" due to her joining the group in Ireland which Colleen LaRose had also been a part of, Reuters reported.
According to prosecutors, both women were allegedly lured to the group so the members could use them for their appearance and passports to carry out attacks, according to Reuters.
The same prosecutors who wanted a 20-year sentence to be given to LaRose hoped for a 10-year sentence for Ramirez on claims she allowed Damache to train her son for violence, Reuters reported.
In a video obtained by the courts, her son is shown wearing a robe and scarf while holding a toy gun. Ramirez can be heard telling him to "attack the kuffar," meaning non-believers, as he fires his toy gun, according to Reuters.
"Damache and his associates were truly dangerous people, motivated by hate and prejudice and a desire to exact revenge on non-believers," prosecutors Jennifer Aribittier Williams and Matthew Blue said in court filings, Reuters reported.
Jeremy H.G. Ibrahim, Ramirez's lawyer, argued "she was she was vulnerable and duped by Damache," and came to realize she was nothing more than "a sex slave," to Damache, Reuters reported.
"Jaime is at no risk for recidivism and in fact has continued to address the two factors that caused her to commit the offense in the first place: her understanding of Islam and her strengthening of her self-esteem," Ibrahim said in a court filing, according to Reuters.
Ibrahim also added that since being arrested Ramirez has fully cooperated with the FBI and has gained a better understanding of a non-violent Islam, Reuters reported.
