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3rd Person Sentenced for Deadly New Albany Fire

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP): The woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for being the driver when a passenger fired a flare that started a southern Indiana house fire in which three young siblings died.
 
A Floyd County judge ordered the maximum sentence for 19-year-old Kylie Jenks of New Albany during a court hearing Thursday. Jenks pleaded guilty in July to an arson conspiracy charge for her role in the January fire.
 
Investigators say she drove 18-year-old Cody Cashion to a New Albany home where he fired a flare, igniting a fire that killed 2-year-old Trinity Hughes, 4-year-old Tyrese Hughes and 6-year-old Tai'zah Hughes. 
 
Cashion has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for murder. A third person in the car was also given a 20-year sentence.

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