Wisconsin student, 16, SUES sheriff for 'threatening to arrest her if she didn't remove Instagram posts about her recovery from COVID-19 after Spring Break trip because they were causing panic' (7 Pics)

A 16-year-old high school sophomore has alleged in a federal lawsuit against a Wisconsin sheriff that she was threatened with jail if she didn't remove social media posts saying she had COVID-19.

The Wisconsin Institute for Liberty and Law filed the lawsuit against Marquette County Sheriff Joseph Konrath and a patrol sergeant. 

The lawsuit alleges that the sergeant went to the home of Amyiah Cohoon of Oxford, Wisconsin, last month and demanded that her Instagram posts be deleted or she and her parents would face arrest.

'I am still on breathing treatment but have beaten the coronavirus. Stay home and be safe,' Amyiah Cohoon, 16, captioned the March 26 Instagram post which she was told to remove

The teenager, pictured, has accused Sheriff Konrath of violating her First Amendment rights in a lawsuit brought in Green Bay Federal Court

Cohoon has accused Sheriff Konrath of violating her First Amendment rights in a lawsuit brought in Green Bay Federal Court. Her parents are also plaintiffs.

No one was threatened with arrest, and an 'aggressive defense' is planned, said Samuel Hall, attorney for the sheriff and the Marquette County Sheriff's Department to Fox News. 

Hall says that the Sheriff's Office acted in 'good faith'. 

'I am finally home after being hospitalized for a day and a half. I am still on breathing treatment but have beaten the coronavirus. Stay home and be safe,' Amyiah wrote in a March 26 Instagram post, according to the lawsuit. 

She also posted a picture of herself in the hospital with an oxygen mask on her face.

Patrol Sgt. Cameron Klump, pictured, left, went to the Cohoon's home under the orders of Sheriff Joseph Konrath, right to demand that Amiyah Cohoon, 16, delete her post where she told Instagram viewers she had coronavirus

It's alleged the following day, Konrath sent Sgt. Cameron Klump to Amyiah's home whereupon Klump threatened to arrest the teen and her parents for disorderly conduct if her COVID-19 posts weren't deleted. 

'Sheriff Konrath advised me he wished for me to respond to the residence and have the post removed from her social media,' Klump wrote in his incident report,according to the lawsuit. 

Hall said the girl's messages 'caused distress and panic within the school system and law enforcement acted at the request of school health officials in a good faith effort to avoid unfounded panic.'

Cohoon, a sophomore in the Westfield School District in Marquette County, suffered a severe respiratory illness with symptoms matching those of COVID-19 during a spring break trip to Florida with the school's band, the lawsuit said. 

The teen came down with a fever and dry cough five days after returning home on March 15.

The sophomore became ill after she traveled to Disney World and Universal Studios with her Westfield Area High School band class on March 7, at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States

The lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Amyiah and her parents, Richard, pictured, and Angela, by the Wisconsin Institute for Liberty and Law, seeks nominal damages and a declaration that the social media posts were protected free speech

Her mother, Angela Cohoon, took her to the emergency room at Divine Savior Hospital on March 22, when she started having difficulty breathing. 

She tested negative for the disease, but her attorney said that doctors told the girl's family that she likely had the virus but missed the window for testing positive. Upon returning back home, she was told to self-quarantine. 

Her condition worsened and had to be taken to UW Children's Hospital in Madison where she stayed overnight. 

It was after she returned from hospital that she posted a selfie of her wearing an oxygen mask. 

The lawsuit filed on behalf of Amyiah and her parents, Richard and Angela, by the Wisconsin Institute for Liberty and Law, seeks nominal damages and a declaration that the social media posts were protected free speech.