Supporters are rallying around the “J6 Praying Grandma,” helping to raise nearly $125,000 for Rebecca Lavrenz’s appeal of her trespassing conviction stemming from her brief prayer walk inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Since her Aug. 12 conviction in a Washington, D.C., court, the Colorado woman’s GiveSendGo page has raised $124,901 for her planned appeal. She is hoping to raise $250,000.
“I was sentenced to 12 months of probation and a $103,000 fine. My attorneys have informed me this is the largest misdemeanor fine in American history,” she wrote in a new update.
While she avoided jail, she has been fitted with an ankle bracelet. National Pulse Editor Raheem Kassam posted a photo of Lavrenz with the home detention device on.
“Today, the Harris-Biden government put a great grandmother — who entered the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 and said a prayer — in an ankle monitor for the next 6 months for her house arrest sentence. I’m sure the country is now much safer from this very potent coup threat!” he wrote.
Lavrenz, 72, from Falcon, Colorado, just east of Colorado Springs, has long said that she was called by God to pray inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. She was inside the building for about 10 minutes.
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“I just wanted lawmakers to listen to us,” she told the Colorado Springs Gazette.
In an update, she detailed her punishment: “The judge ordered that the first 6 months would be home detention, during which time I would not be permitted to use the internet at all. That would prevent me from speaking my voice on social media, using Zoom to conduct media interviews, using e-mail, or even doing basic things like checking news sites or using my bank account online. My attorneys told me that such restrictions were usually reserved for extreme cases such as child pornography or human trafficking cases. I believe this is meant to punish me for speaking my voice to the American people as a Christian woman who loves the country and the Constitution as we head into the most important election of our lives. It will also limit my ability to raise funds for my appeal and to help pay the fine.”
