Posted on 01/20/2023 6:43:08 PM PST by marshmallow
A man was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday in federal court after pleading guilty to lighting the St. Charles Catholic School on fire in 2021, causing nearly $5 million in damage.
Rio A. Mirabal told the courtroom on Tuesday that he was not in the right state of mind and was unmedicated when he set the Catholic school on fire on March 18, 2021. The 24-year-old is said to have suffered from substance abuse and mental health issues since he was a teenager, and has told the court he suffers from schizophrenia.
“This has been a long time coming,” said defense attorney Zachary Ayers, who asked the court for leniency in its sentencing. “What we saw in discovery is not the same person you see today. He’s the same person he was 10 year ago when he’s on his regimen.”
Mirabal told Judge Rosanna M. Peterson that he was committed to staying on his medication.
“You are very young. To keep you in prison for the rest of your 20s is not going to accomplish very much,” Peterson said. “Certainly treatment is going to be more appropriate than incarceration.”
Peterson said she would recommend the Bureau of Prisons release Mirabal to home confinement after three years. However, she tacked an extra year onto his one year of supervision upon his release. Mirabal has been in jail for more than a year already and will get credit for time served.
Mirabal said he intends to move to Wyoming with his family after his release.
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How about you and the courts remedy the situation, judge, and lock that lunatic up for the rest of his life instead of turning him loose on society once again?
How about restitution?
Unless I missed it, I don’t see where the perp was ordered to stay on his prescribed medication.
After the arson, Mirabal walked around the neighborhood setting on fire pages out of a bible. You would think his parents would notice something was not right.
Hate crime. Life in prison.
Prediction: He will break home confinement to buy drugs
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