COVENTRY, R.I. (WLNE) — Coventry Town Council President Hillary Lima has announced her resignation from the council, effective immediately, in a letter sent to Coventry Town Clerk Joanne Amitrano.

Lima cites, among other factors, “an environment of hostility” during her tenure in the council.

Lima described this setting in her letter, in part:

It has included threats with obscene sexual violence, threats to my family with the goal of forcing them to move, my husband receiving direct threats at his job to his safety because of my position, threats to kill the entire council, and daily attacks through social media and other platforms targeting my gender, my weight, my looks and my intelligence.

Lima goes on in the letter to say that the situation has taken a toll on her health, career an

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