Statue of Liberty climber Patricia Okoumou to be sentenced Tuesday - WABC-TV

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty last July 4th will be sentenced Tuesday in Lower Manhattan.

Patricia Okoumou, 45, could face 30 days in jail when she is sentenced by Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein.

Okoumo made the climb to protest the separation of families at the southern border.

Federal prosecutors have said she needs to be incarcerated to deter future lawbreaking after she was arrested again during a climbing protest over immigration in Texas.

But Okoumou's lawyers have argued that her protests create no danger, that jail time for a Statue of Liberty protest would be unprecedented and that jail would prevent her from getting a job.

At a bail revocation hearing earlier this month, Gorenstein ordered home detention with an electronic bracelet to monitor her whereabouts. He also told her to look for a job.

Okoumou was convicted in December of trespass for scaling the pedestal of Lady Liberty and refusing to come down.

She spoke out after her last court appearance.

"My work here will continue as far as my activism highlighting the atrocity of this administration," Okoumou said.

A judge said in her last hearing that he was concerned that she had a financial need for publicity and that in order to get donations, she needed to get attention by breaking the law.

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