‘Iowa Mama Bear’ Pleads Guilty to Bogus Sex Abuse Report

The precise-wing activist who calls herself “Iowa Mama Bear” pleaded responsible Friday to creating a false report of sexual abuse towards the household of her former enterprise accomplice. Kimberly Reicks, 40, will likely be sentenced later this month for simply one of many two counts she confronted underneath a take care of prosecutors, based on the Des Moines Register.

Reicks and the sufferer, Emily Peterson, rose to nationwide prominence as campaigners towards masks, vaccines, and drag queens however had a falling-out—with Reicks accusing the opposite girl of getting an affair along with her husband.

That’s when, based on a felony criticism, she allegedly known as the Iowa Division of Human Assets, claiming to be a neighbor, and reported that Peterson’s teen son was molesting a sibling—which authorities say was unfaithful.

She was accused of constructing a second name to the company after she and Peterson dissolved their enterprise partnership.

Reicks advised The Day by day Beast in January that she made positive she seemed good for her arrest.

“I did my hair and make-up, went in at like two o’clock within the morning, smiled for my mugshot,” she mentioned. “I by no means noticed a mugshot like that.”

She additionally mentioned she was planning to go to trial and predicted she could be acquitted.

Whereas each Reicks and Peterson known as themselves “Iowa Mama Bears” and each had been invited to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a invoice banning all college masks orders, after the cut up Reicks took over the group.

She is presently interesting a choose’s ruling towards a lawsuit she filed towards the Ankeny Faculty District, alleging that her daughter confronted retaliation due to her anti-mask stance.