White woman arrested for sending racist, harassing emails to New Orleans television news station
White woman arrested for sending racist, harassing emails to New Orleans television news station targeting a Black On-Air Talent Over Her Appearance
A Louisiana woman is being charged with one count of cyberstalking after authorities say she sent dozens of threatening emails to a local news station. Caroline Kain, 57, was arrested on May 21, on charges of sending emails to not only the news station, but in particular one on-air journalist whose name has not been made public. The emails were sent between May 5 – May 11 called Black employees at the station the N-word and verbally attacked the unnamed reporter’s appearance, demanded the news station fire her and “baselessly accused her of criminal conduct ‘punishable by death’.”
After receiving Kain’s emails, the station hired more security and reported the incident to the New Orleans Police Department on May 7. Kain, According to court records obtained by The Times-Picayune, Kain was easy to find with the email address she used to send the emails contained her first initial, last name, and the year she was born. Police officials made the link after securing a judge’s permission to search records related to the Google account that sent the messages.
According to Louisiana Law, cyberstalking includes the use of email or other electronic communications to send, “repeatedly for the purpose of threatening, terrifying, or harassing any person.”
According to LawandCrime.com, “Kain does not appear to have any extant criminally charged offenses in Orleans Parish,” so she could be looking at “a maximum sentence of one year in prison, a $2,000 fine, or both.”
Kain has since been released from police custody on a $2,500 bond, and has a court date scheduled for June 6.
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