Shannon Conley, 19, cried in federal court Friday as she told the judge she never meant to hurt anyone.
"I disavow these radical views I've come to know and I now believe in the true Islam in which peace is encouraged," she said.
But U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore was having none of it.
"I'm not going to take a chance with you," he said. "I don't know what has been crystalized in your mind. I'm still not sure you get it."
She had trained as a nurse's aide and learned military tactics at the U.S. Army Explorers in Texas so she could help ISIS wage jihad, she told authorities.
FBI agents had been talking to her since 2013, after she alarmed members of a suburban Denver church with talk of waging holy war.
The feds tried to persuade her to not get involved with terrorist activities, but she was openly defiant and during her first meeting with the FBI, she wore a T-shit that said "Sniper. Don't run, you'll die trying."
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