BENTON, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois woman is accused of making hundreds of nasty and sometimes obscene phone calls to U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.
The Southern Illinoisan reports that a federal grand jury indicted Jura L. Perkins last week on one felony count of repeated harassing communications.
A criminal complaint says Perkins made the calls to the Illinois senators from May 28 to Oct. 25, leaving voicemails in which she used vulgarities, accused them of being communists, and threatened Duckworth’s baby.
In one message that Perkins left for Durbin, she said: “I would be very happy if you died today.” Perkins also tried to visit Durbin’s office in Carbondale.
A judge set a Jan. 3 competency hearing. Perkins’ defense attorney hasn’t responded to a request for comment.
She seems nice.
You had me at southern Illinois.
Sounds like a prudent next step. We know there are millions of just-awful people, but threatening a baby suggests you should probably be “in the system.”
Is there some kind of group therapy for entire nations? Cuz I think we need that.
Um, yeah. Luckily, there’s no phone in the rubber room.