Last year, TruthRevolt reported that Jaelyn Young and husband Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla were arrested at a regional airport in Columbus, Mississippi attempting to board a flight to Syria to join ISIS. Now, the two are being sentenced for conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization.

Young, 20, is the first to be sentenced, receiving 12 years in prison. Prosecutors say Young was the mastermind behind the couple’s plans. Before they started dating in 2014, Young, a former chemistry major at Mississippi State, was already interested in converting to Islam. Soon after, she began wearing a burqa and distanced herself from her family and friends. Young is the daughter of a school administrator and a police officer who was also a Navy reservist. She was also a former honor student, cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school, according to WREG.

Prosecutors said that Young had grown angry with how Muslims were treated in America and Britain. As she started viewing pro-ISIS videos online, she became more sympathetic to their cause and viewed them as liberators. Young also approved of how ISIS executed homosexuals and applauded the five soldiers killed in the Chattanooga terror attack. Her hatred for the U.S. government grew and she desired that the U.S. submit to sharia law.

Before the couple left for the airport, they left letters stating their intentions never to return. Young also declared herself the leader and assured that Dakhlalla was going with her “of his own free will.”

Dakhlalla is noted as the youngest of three sons of a “prominent figure in Starkville’s Muslim community.” He will receive his sentence later this month.