GIRL, 13, CHARGED IN SETTING FIRE TO N.C. BLACK CHURCH.Byline: Stephen Labaton The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times A 13-year-old white girl was charged Monday with setting fire to an old wooden sanctuary on the grounds of a black church last week in Charlotte, N.C., while Texas authorities said they had detained three suspects in the burning of another black church Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. in Greenville, just north of Dallas. The developments in the two arson cases came as a group of Southern pastors and civil rights lawyers completed a meetings in Washington where they pressed senior Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law officials to take more aggressive steps to solve a rash of arson attacks on black churches in recent months. The fires have terrorized communities, most of them rural, from Texas to Virginia. About 30 pastors came to Washington, not only to seek help, but also to complain that they and their parishioners were being unduly harassed by law-enforcement officials, who they say have focused more on church members than on possible outside suspects. A wave of fear and frustration has fallen over many communities in the South after the 32 arsons at black churches in the last 18 months. Federal investigators say they do not believe most attacks have been coordinated, and until Monday the investigations into many had been fruitless. The investigators said they feared some more recent attacks could be copycat crimes Copycat crimes is a hypothesis based on the social learning model that crimes are replicated and inspired by knowledge of similar crimes, especially crimes shown widely in the media. However, to date the evidence for the validity of this hypothesis is inconclusive. . President Clinton continued Monday to elevate the importance of the arson investigations, denouncing the fires in a speech in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , as he did in a radio address on Saturday. He has vowed to mobilize federal resources to find the arsonists, recently ordering scores of agents from the FBI and the Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to assist local police departments investigating the attacks in nine southern states. Officials said a new telephone hotline for tips about the arsons had received more than 300 telephone calls since it was installed over the weekend. The nationwide number is (888) ATF-FIRE (283-3473). Aides to Clinton said that he was expected to travel this week to a destroyed church, probably either the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist denomination (see Methodism). It was established in 1816 in Philadelphia with Richard Allen as its first bishop. In 1991 there were about 3.5 million members in the United States. in Greeleyville, S.C., or the Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. Officials in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. on Monday attributed the second fire to a 13-year-old girl who will be tried in juvenile court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial . An investigator said that she had confessed to setting the fire. |
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