Missouri man gets five years in jail for setting mosque on fire

A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to five years and three months in prison for setting a fire that destroyed a mosque and two attempted arson attacks of a Planned Parenthood clinic, prosecutors said.

 

 

A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to five years and three months in prison for setting a fire that destroyed a mosque and two attempted arson attacks of a Planned Parenthood clinic, prosecutors said.

Jedediah Stout, 32, of Joplin, Missouri, pleaded guilty for setting fire to the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque in August 2012.

The convicted criminal also pleaded guilty for targeting Joplin’s Planned Parenthood Clinic in two separate but unsuccessful arson attacks in October 2013, according to a statement from the US Justice Department.