Grand Rapids Woman Cops Arson Plea For Torching Home Facing Foreclosure

In Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, The Grand Rapids Press reported last month:

• A former Gaines Township woman pleaded no contest [last month] to charges she set fire to her own home with her husband and children inside. Sheryl Christman wanted to get insurance money to get out of her mortgage, which was teetering on the brink of foreclosure, to be with her new boyfriend, according to the prosecution. She pleaded [...] to the arson of her family's home [...] in exchange for the Kent County Prosecutor's office dropping a 10-year-felony charge of committing arson in order to profit from insurance. The 38-year-old mother set fire to mattresses in the garage on Sept. 1. She then sat outside the $150,000 home weeping as the structure burned, according to investigators.

For the story, see Woman pleads no contest to arson of her own home.

For earlier post on this story, see Woman Facing Foreclosure Torches Home; Faces Arson Charge.

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