Iowa woman who struck 2 children with her car sentenced to 25 years in prison for hate crimes
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An Iowa woman was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on Thursday for trying to kill two children by running them over with her car because she believed they were Mexican or of Middle Eastern or African descent.
Nicole Poole Franklin was sentenced Thursday to 304 months by a federal judge. This sentence will run concurrent to a 17½-year sentence that Franklin received April 19 on related state charges of attempted murder, prosecutors said in a news release announcing the sentence. She pleaded guilty to two federal hate crime charges in April.More Related News
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