Bucks County Woman Guilty In Gay Attack, Jury Finds

A jury has found a Bucks County woman guilty of numerous charges in connection with an attack on a gay couple in Philadelphia last year.

Kathryn Knott of Southampton is guilty of two counts of recklessly endangering anther person, simple assault and conspiracy for simple assault for her role in the attack of a gay couple in Center City Philadelphia on Sept. 11, 2014, a jury announced Friday.

Knott was acquitted of the more serious charges of aggravated assault.

Knott, whose father is the police chief in Chalfont, was one of three Bucks County residents accused in the attack. Two men also accused have accepted a plea agreement.

“Hate has no place in this great city of ours; not in Center City, not in the Gayborhood and not on one of our neighborhood street corners – from North to South and from East to West,” said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. “Kathryn Knott’s actions on that night in September of 2014 were disgusting and what she did hurt all of us, especially the LGBTQ community.”

She will be sentenced on February 8, 2016. She faces up to two years in prison, 6ABC reports.

The victims have not offered a statement in response to the verdict.