[news] Teen atheist and family receive threatening letter

source:

http://630wpro.com/Article.asp?id=2434019&spid=37719

(screen capture of letter available at the source.)

Jessica Ahlquist, the teen atheist who took on the Cranston Prayer Banner, has received a threatening letter.

"On April 5^th we received a complaint from the Ahlquist family regarding a letter they received sometime in February, that was threatening in nature regarding her objection to the prayer banner at Cranston West. That matter is currently under investigation," said Cranston Police Chief Marco Palumbo.

The teen uploaded the letter to here twitter account but later had to remove it at the police request.

"We are investigating to contents of the letter and the veracity of the letter. We are hopefully that it is nothing more than it appears to be but we will air on the side of caution," said Palumbo.

The letter says "we will get you good," and tells the teen that "the cops will not watch you forever." The letter orders 16-year-old Ahlquist and her family to "Get the [expletive] out of Rhode Island.

The letter calls the teen a slew of derogatory terms. According to Ahlquist's Twitter account, she reported the letter a while back but waited to post it to twitter due to safety concerns.

"As you can imagine it can be difficult to track down the source of some of these things but that does not mean we don't take it seriously and for a period of time we have a presence near her home and near her parent's home," said Palumbo.

According to the Cranston Patch, several of Ahlquist's classmates have been suspended or face other disciplinary actions after threatening violence and rape on the teen.