{"id":12641,"date":"2023-05-31T05:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2023-05-31T05:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T10:37:41","slug":"teenage-girl-charged-with-killing-19-in-school-dorm-fire-after-cellphone-confiscated-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12641","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl charged with killing 19 in school dorm fire after cellphone confiscated: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 15-year-old schoolgirl from Guyana was charged as an adult Monday in the murder of 19 people&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\">after police accused her<\/a>&nbsp;of purposefully setting fire to a school dormitory in retaliation for her cellphone being confiscated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire killed 18 of her schoolmates and a 5-year-old boy trapped inside the building after a dorm matron locked the doors from the inside to prevent the female students, aged 12-18, from sneaking out to socialize with males from a nearby mining town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How the fire was started has not yet been made clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;A court south of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/regions\/south-america\">the capital of Georgetown<\/a>&nbsp;ordered that the 15-year-old girl be held in custody pending further hearings after she appeared virtually for the proceedings Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has not yet been permitted to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/events\/in-court\">will appear for another court hearing<\/a>&nbsp;on July 5. State and defense attorneys will then decide whether they are ready to start a preliminary trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 15-year-old could face up to life in prison if she is found guilty of purposefully setting fire to the Mahdia Secondary School this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school, a government boarding school that serves remote indigenous villages in the country\u2019s southwest, was found ablaze shortly before midnight on May 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some two dozen students were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/disasters\/fires\">injured as firefighters worked<\/a>&nbsp;to rescue them from the burning building heavily constructed with iron grillwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another 20 students were also rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/health-care\">One of the critically injured students<\/a>&nbsp;was sent to a hospital in New York for specialist treatment, though the majority of the injured students have been discharged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/teenage-girl-charged-killing-19-in-school-dorm-fire-cell-phone-confiscated-report\">foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old schoolgirl from Guyana was charged as an adult Monday in the murder of 19 people&nbsp;after police accused her&nbsp;of purposefully setting fire to a school dormitory in retaliation for her cellphone being confiscated. 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