A Piqua woman convicted of threatening witnesses in a rape case involving a Tipp City woman was sentenced Monday, Nov. 2, to one year in prison.

Trishica Leighly, 37, was accused of making threats over the summer against two people who are witnesses in a pending rape case. She pleaded guilty in October in Miami County Common Pleas Court. Leighly made no comment before being sentenced. She will receive credit for 83 days served in jail.

The rape case occurred in summer 2014 when special needs adult from Tipp City was held against her will and raped in Troy.