Billie Davis, who was accused of stabbing an Asian American student at Indiana University Bloomington last year because she said she had “noticed” the victim was Chinese, has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge.

An Indiana woman faces up to six years in prison for a hate crime after pleading guilty to stabbing a Chinese American teen in the head.

Billie Davis, a 58-year-old woman, has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for repeatedly stabbing an 18-year-old Chinese American student on a Bloomington Transit bus in Indiana in 2023. On Jan. 11,