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An Oregon woman convicted of igniting an enormous wildfire simply to give firefighters something to put out will now spend more than one year in jail.
On Wednesday, Sadie Renee Johnson, 23, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by US District Judge Marco Hernandez. In May, she pleaded guilty to sparking a fire that burned through 51,000 acres southeast of Portland, Oregon, back in July 2013. The fire ravaged the Warm Springs Indian Reservation for more than a week and cost almost $8 million to extinguish.
Johnson will also perform 200 hours of community service in the affected area, a sentence that Hernandez reportedly considered light, according to the
Associated Press."You owe them much more than that," he said to her in court.
The fire began when Johnson threw a firework out of her car and lit up some brush, as noted by
Reuters. Two days later, with the fire still raging, Johnson posted a status update on Facebook that read,
"Like my fire?" which led detectives to detain her. Johnson eventually claimed that she started the fire because her friends in the fire department "were bored and needed work."The young woman has also stated she does have substance abuse problems, something that was taken into account by the judge as he determined her sentence. She could have potentially faced five years in prison.
Comment: A fine example of the social hysteria created by psychopaths - the result of living in a pathocracy:
Kids are now being brainwashed into accepting the police state
The American Delusion: Distracted, diverted and insulated from the grim reality of the police state