DETROIT, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday for starting a fire that killed her young son and daughter.
Sharon Hinojosa of Huron apologized to members of her family, telling them "I'm so sorry," The Detroit News reported. She did not admit deliberately setting the fire.
"I'm hurting too," she said during the hearing in Wayne County.
During her trial, Hinojosa said the fire in her boyfriend's trailer that killed Anthony, 4, and Alyana, 3, in October 2009 began accidentally. Prosecutors said she started the fire because she was angry at her boyfriend.
"You leaving Anthony and Alyana in that trailer while leaving with your youngest child is a betrayal of what a mother is supposed to stand for," Circuit Judge Daniel Hathaway said. "You will have the rest of your life in prison to consider that."
