Teen Gets 20-Year Sentence in Children’s Arson Deaths
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<i> Associated Press</i>
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A teenager was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for setting a fire that killed a 3-year-old boy and his 15-month-old sister.
The blaze broke out in 1996 in a Yonkers apartment building. A film crew shooting the Denzel Washington-Whitney Houston movie “The Preacher’s Wife” nearby helped rescue tenants.
Another teen was sentenced to nine years in prison for the blaze. An evicted tenant was accused of putting the pair up to the arson, but the charge was dropped for lack of evidence.
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