Following a four day trial, Raffaela Spone, 51, was found guilty by a Bucks County jury after about an hour and a half of deliberation.
Prosecutors say Raffaela Spone, 51, acted in a "weird, creepy and unsettling" manner when she sent repeated, anonymous text messages about her daughter's cheerleading teammates to their mothers. PHILADELPHIA — A Chalfont woman was convicted Friday of sending repeated, harassing text messages to the parents of her daughter’s rivals on a cheerleading squad.
It became clear during the four-day trial that the images Spone sent had not been doctored. One video showed one of the girls smoking a vape, while others depicted the girls posing for pictures at parties or wearing bikinis. Spone’s attorney, Robert Birch, told jurors the case lacked merit, especially after the more serious charges his client faced for the alleged deep fakes had been dismissed.
He said prosecutors had not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Spone had sent the text messages. But whoever did send the messages, he said, clearly was a concerned parent who wanted the teens’ mothers to see what they had been posting publicly on social media. The texts were first reported to police in July 2020, when coaches at the Victory Vipers cheerleading gym in Doylestown Township reporting receiving anonymous messages about what some of the team’s members were posting on social media.
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