Woman who set fire to historic First Baptist Church in Montgomery in 2021 gets 8 years in prison
Federal prosecutors said a 30-year-old woman in the U.S. on a student visa.
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A federal judge sentenced a Chinese citizen to more than eight years in prison for lighting several fires in a historic Montgomery, Ala., church.
Xiaoqin Yan, 30, entered First Baptist Church in downtown Montgomery on Sept. 29, 2021. Surveillance showed her carrying duffel bags and a plastic bag into the building during Wednesday night service. At about 2 a.m., security cameras revealed Yan removing silver containers from one of the bags. Yan walked around the church starting multiple fires and then left.