Ex-University of Texas Law Student Gets 4 Years in Georgetown Cyberstalking Case
Prosecutors said Ho Ka Terence Yung used the internet to terrorize a Georgetown alumni interviewer who did not recommend him for admission. Yung received a full scholarship to the University of Texas School of Law and was interning at the Office of the Texas Attorney General as he was cyberstalking his victim, prosecutors said.
February 28, 2019 at 01:51 PM
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A former University of Texas law student who last year pleaded guilty to cyberstalking a Georgetown law alum following an unsuccessful admissions interview was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Wednesday by a federal judge in Delaware.
Prosecutors say Ho Ka Terence Yung unleashed an 18-month online campaign to terrorize the alumni interviewer after he failed to get into Georgetown University Law Center. Yung faced as much as five years in prison, and received a sentence of 46 months for one count of cyberstalking.
According to prosecutors, Yung had an admissions interview with the victim in 2014 in Delaware, where he is from. The interviewer determined that Yung “performed poorly” and Georgetown rejected his application a week later. Yung later was admitted to the University of Texas School of Law, where, prosecutors said, he obtained a full scholarship and was interning at the Texas Attorney General's Office as he was cyberstalking his victim.
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