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By Gudrun Schultz

Sally Jacobsen vandalizing the pro-life displayHIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Kentucky, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Criminal charges have been dismissed against Professor Sally Jacobsen, a former professor at Northern Kentucky University who destroyed a pro-life campus display in April.

District Judge Karen Thomas said Jacobsen’s successful completion of a mediation program would stand in lieu of the first-time misdemeanour charges, which included two counts of misdemeanour theft and two counts of third-degree criminal mischief,  reported the Cincinnati Post.

Jacobsen tore down a pro-life sign and 400 small white crosses, intended to represent a cemetery for aborted babies,  which had been displayed by the campus pro-life group Northern Right to Life. The former literature professor encouraged her students to join her in the destruction. Six students were also charged, but were granted diversion of their sentences by Judge Thomas earlier this month, performing community service instead.

Jacobsen was suspended from her teaching position at the University after the vandalism occurred, and has since retired from her post.

See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:

Kentucky Literature Prof Removed for Vandalizing Pro-life Display
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06041804.html

Charges Laid Against Prof, Students Who Vandalized Pro-Life Display
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06042804.html

Prof’s Criminal Charges over Pro-Life Display Vandalism May Be Dropped
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06052505.html