High School Student Charged With Aiding ISIS: Media Reports

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A 17-year-old from Woodbridge has been charged by federal officials with recruiting for the Islamic State.

The teen allegedly helped an unidentified man travel to Syria to fight for ISIS, according to the Washington Post. On Friday, the FBI raided the townhouse where he lives with his family and took him into custody.

The juvenile’s name has not been released.

The teen, a student at Osbourn Park High School near Manassas, is charged as a juvenile. But federal prosecutors are working to get the teen charged as an adult, according to Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP.

Sources told WRC-TV Channel 4, a Washington TV station, that they fear the Osbourn Park student may have tried to recruit other students to join ISIS.

The case may be another instance of a young person living in America and using the Internet to help the Islamic State, experts told the Post.

Anonymous sources told the Post that investigators believe the teen helped an adult not much older than himself travel to Syria. The officials said the teen helped arrange the man’s travel, in part by using online contacts that led to the Islamic State overseas.

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