Boy Found Guilty in Missionary’s Death
From Times Wire Reports
A 13-year-old boy has been convicted in the mob killing of an Australian missionary and his two sons. The teenager was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Graham Staines, 58, and his sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, 8, were burned alive inside the vehicle where they were sleeping after a Bible study meeting in the village of Manoharpur in January 1999. Hindu radicals accuse missionaries of illicitly inducing conversions to Christianity.
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