Teenage Girl Charged As Adult In Dorm Fire

GUYANA – A teenage student who police in Guyana accuse of deliberately setting a fire in a girl’s dormitory was charged Monday as an adult with 19 counts of murder.

18 of her schoolmates and a five-year-old boy were killed in the fire.

The 15-year-old girl appeared virtually at the hearing in a court south of the capital, Georgetown, and was ordered held in custody pending further court proceedings.

She was not allowed to plead and will make a second court appearance on July 5th.

If found guilty, she faces life in prison.