Nine Mexican Officials Sentenced to 20 Years Behind Bars Over Daycare Center Fire The Associated Press
go to original May 16, 2016

On June 5th 2009, forty-nine children lost their lives when a daycare caught fire in Hermosillo, Mexico. (Amber Sasse)

A federal judge has sentenced nine former officials and two other people to 20 or more years in prison for a fire at a day care center in Mexico, where 49 children died.

The Judicial Council that oversees the courts said those convicted include both state and federal officials who were responsible for regulating the ABC day center in the north-western Mexico city of Hermosillo.

The homicide sentences range from 20 to 29 years.

Investigators determined that an overheated cooling unit started a fire at a state government warehouse and spread to the roof of the neighboring school on June 5, 2009.

Witnesses testified that flaming pieces of tarp rained down on the children as people fled through the smoke to the one functioning exit.

The decision was announced Saturday.

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