Sydney Gort, the MSU junior charged with two counts of making terrorist threats in the MSU School of Packaging, was approved a request on Friday morning for a personal recognizance bond by 54B District Court Judge Andrea Larkin.
The personal recognizance bond will allow Gort to stay with her mother — who is visiting from Illinois — in West Bloomfield, Mich, until after Christmas. Gort will then reside with her godmother in Southgate, Mich.
Her bond was reduced from $100,000 to $25,000 at ten percent.
The decision to release Gort comes after a psychological exam, which concluded she was of no threat to the public and posed no threat of fleeing. The option to stay with her mother and then godmother — which were not living options in Gort’s prior hearing — also helped in Judge Larkin’s decision to release her.
Gort will be under standard bond rules and will not be required to wear any sort of tethering device such as a GPS tracker or have any sort of curfew during her personal recognizance period.
On Dec. 23, Gort will return to the 54B District Court for her preliminary examination hearing.
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