A Pennsylvania woman who became a follower of radical Islam and called herself "Jihad Jane" received a 10-year prison sentence on Monday for plotting to kill a Swedish artist.

"Jihad Jane," otherwise known as Colleen LaRose, could have faced a life term for her involvement in the plot. However, U.S. District Court judge Petrese Tucker accepted a government request to reduce her sentence because of her cooperation in the investigation of the case.

According to a report from the Boston Herald, LaRose, 50, participated in a 2009 conspiracy to murder artist Lars Vilks over a series of drawings he did depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a dog. This is considered offensive in the Muslim tradition and so extremists put a $100,000 bounty on his head.

LaRose, who told the judge that she had become obsessed with jihad, said her obsession began when she met a Muslim man named Ali Charaf Damache while on vacation in Amsterdam.

She pursued the jihadist cause online after returning to the United States. According to the Department of Justice, Damache, who lived in Ireland at the time, recruited LaRose and another woman from the U.S. named Jamie Paulin-Ramirez to take part in the murder conspiracy.

It's alleged that LaRose left the terrorist cell in Ireland after a month and a half because her "allies" weren't ready to act on the murder.

Reuters reports that at Monday's hearing LaRose apologized for "blindly following the instructions of her handlers."

"I was in a trance and I couldn't see anything else," LaRose told the court. "I don't want to be in jihad no more."

LaRose had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder a foreign target and support terrorists and lying to the FBI in connection with the failed 2009 plot.

Judge Tucker, who called LaRose's crimes "gravely serious" gave her only a 10-year sentence for many reasons, including cooperating with investigators after her 2009 arrest and providing authorities with information on other targets.

Prosecutors say her story has also helped law enforcement better understand the roots of homegrown extremism, according to a report from NBC News.

Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams had sought a significantly longer prison sentence for LaRose because she argues that she is still a danger to society, according to Reuters.

Prosecutors also pointed out that LaRose, who is a blonde, green-eyed, White, American woman didn't fit the typical stereotype of a jihadist.

"This is a sentencing that people are watching ... it was scary for many people to think that Ms. LaRosa could be radicalized, just online, in the United States," Williams said. "Ms. LaRosa had such a big impact in the public and press because she really did change the face of what the world thought of as a violent jihadist."

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