{"id":2002133,"date":"2023-08-16T05:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T09:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-set-fire-at-illinois-planned-parenthood-clinic-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T05:52:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T09:52:15","slug":"man-who-set-fire-at-illinois-planned-parenthood-clinic-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-set-fire-at-illinois-planned-parenthood-clinic-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsonist at Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic gets 10-year jail term."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-who-set-fire-at-illinois-planned-parenthood-clinic-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002133&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Man Sentenced \u200cto 10 Years in Prison for Setting Fire at Planned Parenthood Clinic<\/h2>\n<p>In \u200ba dramatic turn of events,\u200b Tyler Massengill \u200chas\u2062 been sentenced to 10 years\u200c in federal prison for his role in setting a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic \u2062in Peoria, Illinois. The\u2063 incident occurred\u2064 in January, just days after the signing\u200b of a\u2063 law \u2064that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-set-fire-at-illinois-planned-parenthood-clinic-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison\/\" title=\"Arsonist at Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic gets 10-year jail term.\">provided additional legal\u200d protections<\/a> for abortion procedures by Democratic Governor\u200c J.B. Pritzker.<\/p>\n<p>Using\u200c a homemade \u2063explosive, Massengill ignited the fire at the clinic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-killed-numerous-historic-buildings-destroyed-in-hawaii-blaze-that-is-going-to-change-everything\/\" title=\"Hawaii blaze claims many lives, devastates historic structures, and brings significant change.\">causing extensive \u200cdamage<\/a> to the building. Fortunately, no one was inside \u200dat the time \u2064of the\u200d incident.<\/p>\n<p>During his court appearance, Massengill expressed empathy for those who lost their\u200d jobs\u2064 due to \u200bthe \u200dfire, acknowledging that he was not trying to portray\u200b himself as a victim. He revealed that his actions were \u2064driven by deep emotional pain, stemming from his belief that his\u2064 former girlfriend had undergone an abortion several years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/saskatchewan-government-suspends-planned-parenthood-presentations-in-schools-5351769\">Saskatchewan\u200c Government Suspends Planned Parenthood Presentations\u2063 in Schools<\/a> &#8211; 6\/23\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/planned-parenthood-execs-among-highest-paid-in-nonprofit-sector-report-5337563\">Planned Parenthood \u2063Execs Among Highest Paid in\u200c Nonprofit Sector:\u2063 Report<\/a> &#8211; 6\/16\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Contrary to\u2063 Massengill&#8217;s claims, prosecutors \u2063revealed that the woman in question had informed the FBI that his allegations were false.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District\u2064 Judge James Shadid \u2064expressed concern for the impact of the fire on individuals who relied\u200b on the clinic \u200bfor \u200bvarious services. He \u200cnoted that many \u2062of them had to seek alternative options due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-announces-1-3-billion-infrastructure-aid-package-for-ukraine\/\" title=\"US pledges .3B infrastructure aid to Ukraine.\">extensive damage caused<\/a> by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Shadid decided \u2064to impose\u2064 a sentence \u2063slightly above the recommended guidelines but below\u200d the maximum\u2062 possible term of \u206420 years in \u2062prison.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorney Karl Bryning argued\u200b for a shorter sentence of five years, citing \u2062Massengill&#8217;s history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-girl-pepper-sprayed-during-interaction-with-rochester-police\/\" title=\"9-Year-Old Girl Pepper Sprayed During Interaction With Rochester Police\">mental health issues<\/a> and alcohol\u200b abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the prison term, Judge\u200d Shadid ordered Massengill, a resident of \u200bChillicothe, to pay $1.45 million \u200cin restitution.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, the clinic\u2064 has announced plans \u2063to reopen \u2063its doors\u2062 in\u200b 2024, determined to continue providing essential services to the community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Massengill, who ignited a fire at an Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic, received a 10-year federal prison sentence. He confessed to using a homemade explosive after Governor J.B. Pritzker enacted a law granting further legal safeguards. The incident occurred in January at the Peoria clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2002134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}