In Texas, Nigerian woman convicted of murder in daycare fire incident

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Saturday, November 17th, 2012

In Texas, Nigerian woman convicted of

murder in day care fire

Recall the Nigerian woman, Jessica
Tata, owner of a day care center
in Texas, USA where four kids died,
and three others seriously
injured in a fire that gutted her day care
center?

Authority said that last year, Jessica Tata, 24, carelessly left
hot oil
on the stove and went to shop at a nearby Target while leaving

seven kids alone as the stove caught fire and razed down her Texas
home, which she used for the day care center.

Surprisingly, Jessica
fled to Nigeria after the incident but was caught
a month later and
brought back to the US to face prosecution and
has been in jail since
them. Jessica was born in US but has Nigerian
citizenship.

When
her case came up on Today (Tuesday), Jurors convicted her
on one count
charge of Murder in the case of a 16-month-old Elias
Castillo who died
in the inferno.

She is also facing murder charge in the case of other
three kids who
died in the incident and two counts of reckless injury
to a child in
relation to the three others who were badly
injured.

Tata’s attorneys argued that she never intended to hurt the
children
but prosecutors insisted that the deaths occurred because she
put
them in danger by leaving them alone to shop at Target. Jessica
faces at least life imprisonment.wp_posts