Posted on 08/08/2007 2:05:19 PM PDT by FoxInSocks
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - A 19-year-old woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torching a historic Williamsport home after she and her family were evicted for not making promised repairs to the publicly owned building.
Lauren A. France of Clear Spring offered no explanation or apology Monday at her sentencing hearing in Washington County Circuit Court.
"I don't really know what to say," France told Judge Frederick C. Wright.
A jury convicted her in May of arson and malicious destruction of property after witnesses testified she poured gasoline and threw a burning paper towel onto the porch Aug. 30. The fire caused at least $150,000 worth of damage to the house, which is owned by the town of Williamsport and dates to the 1750s. It once belonged to town founder Otho Williams.
France's family had been evicted 11 months earlier after her mother failed to make promised repairs in return for living there rent-free.
Still...what an expression of gratitude!
I expect the FEMA trailers will meet the same fate 10 years from now when hurrican Katrina “victims” are finally evicted.
Whenever I read articles like this, “Democrats” always comes to mind. I wonder why.
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