Thursday, December 22, 2005

pacifist nuns released

thank you sisters, for your beautiful action.

Nun Who Defaced Silo Released From Prison
BY MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
Thu Dec 22,10:36 AM ET

DANBURY, Conn. - A pacifist nun convicted of defacing a Colorado missile silo in 2002 was released Thursday from federal prison.

Ardeth Platte, 69, was not due to be released until May 31, but a judge gave her credit for time already served, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Platte, along with sisters Jackie Hudson and Carol Gilbert, were arrested in October 2002 after they allegedly cut a chain link fence surrounding a Minuteman III missile silo in northern Colorado. The nuns then used baby bottles to dispense their own blood in the shape of a cross on the silo.
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