By Bria Jones

December 5, 2007 | A 19-year-old woman was sentenced to 33 days in the Cache County Jail after being charged with stalking, a class-A misdemeanor, after incidents that occurred around August of this year.

"This is flat out threatening, bizarre, and it's terrible behavior," Judge Willmore said. "As far stalking goes it's one of the worst I've seen with regards to the threats that were made concerning this family."

The woman, Kelli Sue Thompson, Providence, was also ordered by Willmore to pay restitution in the amount of $1,282.33 to the victims in the case, as well as a fine of $1,100 and a court security fee of $25.

"I wish I could express how sorry I am, but I know you can't ever take back what you've done," Thompson said. "But I also know I have to pay for what I've done. I've been trying to turn my life around. I'm not trying to get out of what I've done.

"I'm just trying to be the person that I know that I am," Thompson said. "I've enrolled in school, I have a full-time job, and I've been attending counseling."

"This is a difficult case, and a very unusual case," said Prosecutor Maybell Romero. "The victim in this case has suffered tremendously because she had such a close relationship with Kelli, she trusted her implicitly with her children. She thought that she was one person and now found out that she is not that person.

"It has been quite traumatic for her to have someone that close to her betray her in this very fundamental way," Romero said, "to deceive her and to terrorize her, you know, someone that you trust, particularly when they are in charge of your children."

Thompson must also write a letter of apology, cannot have any contact with the victim or the victim's children in the case and may not be within 500 feet of the victims.

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