Except the one who got 50 years.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Seven more convicted members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell were sentenced Wednesday in federal court, less than two weeks after one of the convicts allegedly attempted to kill herself while in custody.
U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor handed down the sentences in Fort Worth following last week's 450-year prison sentence, a historic punishment of the Antifa group's first batch of trial defendants.
With the exception of Ines Soto, all of Wednesday's defendants had accepted plea agreements before trial. They received the following sentences in federal prison:
Ines Houston Soto -- 50 years
John Philip Thomas -- 9 years
Rebecca Deyalyn Morgan -- 15 years
Nathan Josiah Baumann -- 22 months
Lynette Read Sharp -- 9 years
Joy Abigail Gibson (trans nonbinary female who goes by "Rowan") -- 15 years
Seth Edison Sikes -- six years and 10 months
Other than Nathan Baumann, all of them will also have two years of supervised release after serving their sentences. Baumann will have one year of supervised release.
Susan Elaine Kent was supposed to be sentenced, but her court date was moved to next week.
Ahead of sentencing, Ngo Comment can exclusively report that Rebecca Morgan had allegedly attempted to harm or kill herself while in custody in Wichita County, Texas. According to a source not authorized to speak on record, Morgan had consumed pills. It's unclear how she was able to obtain the pills. Wichita County officials told Ngo Comment they had no records or information to provide.
Joy Gibson is the female romantic partner of the cell's ringleader, Benjamin Hanil "Champagne" Song. They both identify as trans nonbinary. At least a quarter of the 16 convicts identify as trans. They are all being housed in the facility matching their biological sex.
In front of Judge Pittman, Baumann's attorney told the court that his client fears violent reprisal for cooperating with the prosecution. This journalist's reporting was cited. Many Antifa-aligned accounts on social media have been threatening violence against some of the defendants for months for testifying at trial.
Baumann cried and apologized in his statement to the court. It is assumed that he received the lightest prison sentence, only 22 months, because of his strong cooperation in providing extensive evidence of the conspiracy to the prosecution.
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Ines Soto was convicted at trial in March of providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, using and carrying an explosive and rioting. He is the spouse of Elizabeth Soto, who was also sentenced to 50 years in prison last week.
The other six each pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists, admitting in signed factual stipulations that they organized behind an Antifa ideology and participated in supporting the July 4, 2025 attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.

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