This poor kid who was just trying to get out of a poor environment ful;l of homers and sinners and pentacostals!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/01...ild/index.html
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The boy escaped the September 16 fire that killed his mother, Chanan Palmer; his half-sister Kaysha, 8, and three children of Christy Winans: Kayla Winans, 6; Je'Shawn Davis, 5; and Jasmine Davis, 3.
Christy Winans and her boyfriend escaped the blaze with minor or no injuries.
Neighbors in Greenville, Ohio, about 30 miles from Dayton, said the duplex became a raging inferno within five minutes.
Darke County Prosecutor Richard Howell told the Dayton Daily News last week that the boy didn't give investigators a clear motive. But when asked whether he was certain the boy was behind the fire, Howell told the newspaper, "Yes, I am."
Winans' mother, Sabrina Jones, screamed at the boy's supporters outside the court Monday.
"My grandkids didn't even see the age of 10," Jones yelled at the crowd as she hurried to her car.
While police have said the boy confessed to setting the blaze, his supporters say he gave in under three days of questioning.
"He was just made a scapegoat for the whole thing," said Burke L. Goines, the boy's uncle. "It's traumatizing to put a 10-year-old boy in a situation like this, to make other people look better in their investigation," Goines said.
"A lot of people know what really happened, and no one will come forward," said Vicky Perez, who described herself as a friend and neighbor of the boy's family.
William Zink, pastor of the New Life Pentecostals of Greenville, said the boy was a regular churchgoer, overcoming difficulties including the death in July of his stepfather from AIDS and what he said was the family's "wild lifestyle."
"It was not just your 'American pie' family," Zink said. He said the boy had no bed and slept on the couch in the duplex.
The boy will now be under house arrest and staying with grandmother Tammy Reed. He will be home-schooled at the grandmother's home, the court said.
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