“The last two months have been filled with fear and anxiety.”

Sonya McKnight was taken away in handcuffs after the trial judge rejected a defense request that she be released. She faces up to 60 years in prison when she’s sentenced May 28.

A fourth man alleged by prosecutors to be a bomb-making expert was also charged for aiding the plot.

It was the first known meeting since the pope’s return to the Vatican after five weeks in the hospital for life-threatening double pneumonia.