Jaelyn Delshaun Young is an American woman, who with fellow Mississippi State University student and her fiancé, an American man named Muhammad Oda "Mo" Dakhlalla, attempted to join ISIS in 2015. The two were students at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi when they met, and later decided to travel to Syria to join the known terrorist organization, ISIS. Young was apprehended by the FBI and ultimately pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock sentenced Young to 12 years in federal prison on August 11, 2016. Early life and education Young is from Vicksburg, Mississippi, where she attended Warren Central High School. The daughter of a police officer and a former Navy Reserve member, Young was a cheerleader and honors student. She graduated with honors in 2013 from Warren Central High School, and was studying chemistry at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi at the time of her arrest. The son of an imam, her fiancé, Muhammad Oda “Mo” Dakhlalla was raised in the Islamic faith in Starkville, Mississippi. His father is Oda H. Dakhlalla, a Palestinian American man from Bethlehem; and, his mother was Lisa Dakhlalla, an American woman from New Jersey who had prior converted to Islam. He also has two older brothers. His parents established the Islamic Center of Mississippi where his father served as imam, located in his hometown of Starkville, Mississippi (the same location of Mississippi State University, where Young and Dakhlalla first met). Dakhlalla's mother died due to Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2016. ISIS support and arrest Young and Dakhlalla began dating in November 2014. In March 2015, as stated in documents submitted in federal court, Young announced that she had converted to Islam and began wearing Islamic dress, which included a hijab headscarf and a niqab face veil (often described in the media as a "burqa"). Young and Dakhlalla partook in a nikah (an Islamic marriage ceremony) on June 6, 2015. They never engaged in a civil marriage. Young did not previously have a record of frequent attendance at a mosque nor at the Muslim Students Association at Mississippi State. Beginning in May 2015, Young and Dakhlalla made statements on social media supportive of ISIS. An undercover FBI agent posed as a member of the group and Young told her that while their families did not support ISIS, she and Dakhlalla did and could lend support. Prosecutors said Young was the