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A former University of Texas law student has pleaded guilty to one count of cyberstalking after launching an online harassment campaign against a Georgetown University Law Center alum with whom he interviewed for admission to the school, which rejected his application.

Ho Ka Terence Yung has been in custody since his February 2017 arrest in Austin and is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which announced his plea on Wednesday.

The case dates back to 2014, when Yung applied to Georgetown Law. The Delaware native conducted an admissions interview with a nearby Georgetown alum, who determined that Yung “performed poorly,” according to the Justice Department. Georgetown denied Yung's application a week later.

Yung was represented by the Wilmington Federal Public Defender's Office, which did not respond to a request for comment on the case.

Yung, who was accepted and enrolled at the University of Texas, began to cyberstalk the alumni interviewer from Georgetown after his rejection, even sending strangers to the victim's house, said David Weiss, U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware, in the announcement.

“The defendant's conduct offers a disturbing example of the destructive potential of the Internet and social media,” Weiss said. “For 18 months the defendant pursued a sustained, sadistic course of conduct designed to terrorize his victim and the victim's family—all because the defendant was denied admission to the law school of his choice.”

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Yung posted “violent and sadistic” statements about his victim on the internet, including lynching, sexual molestation, and rape. In one instance, Yung posted a false story online about the victim's supposed involvement in abducting and raping an 8-year-old girl.

Yung also created fake personal ads on Craigslist and other sites with the aim of getting people with an interest in violent sexual activity to go to the victim's house in the middle of the night, authorities said. Yung appears to have been successful in at least one instance. Police stopped a man responding to one of those ads outside the victim's house one night.

Wilmington-based FBI agents launched a monthslong investigation that culminated in Yung's arrest. The University of Texas School of Law did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Yung's status at the school, though the Justice Department's announcement says he is a former student at the school.

Yung faces up to five years in prison.

“Our office continues to fight for victims who are tormented by those who seek to use the Internet and social media for such destructive purposes,” Weiss said. “The defendant must be held accountable for the damage he inflicted.”