• March 28, 2024

Mother Smiles As She Burns House Down, Gives 1 Reason Why [WATCH]

 Mother Smiles As She Burns House Down, Gives 1 Reason Why [WATCH]

The mother of a girl raped and murdered five years ago was allowed to burn down the house where her daughter was killed.

Diena Thompson grieves the loss of her daughter, Somer, who 6 years ago was kidnapped, raped and murdered on her way home from school by killer Jarred Harrell.

On Thursday afternoon, Diena Thompson set fire to a house in Orange Park, Florida, where Jared Harrell lived when he killed her daughter in October, 2009. Firefighters on the scene nodded approvingly.

Thompson was given an axe and was allowed to hack into the walls the day before the fire, physically destroying the house that witnessed her daughter’s last hours.

The house was foreclosed on and the bank transferred ownership to the Somer Thompson Foundation, which turned around and gave it to the Orange Park Fire Department to use for training,The Florida Times-Union reported.

They torched the building, to the delight of Thompson, 40, her neighbors and friends.

She told press,

“I get to burn their house down… I’m the big bad wolf this time knocking down your door, not the other way around. It’s really nice to know that I’m not ever going to have to drive in this neighborhood again and see this piece of trash.”

Jarred Harrell lured little Somer Thompson inside the suburban Jacksonville horror house as she was walking home from school on Oct. 19, 2009. He sexually assaulted and smothered her before dumping her body in the trash.

Thompson’s remains werefound days later in a Georgia landfill. Harrell pleaded guilty to murder, kidnapping, sexual battery and other charges—avoiding the death penalty—and was sentenced to life in prison.

The house, described as an eyesore, was burned to the ground.

Diane Malcolm, who lives nearby, stood and watched.

“It kind of puts a finalization on what happened,”Malcolm told the Times-Union. “Every time you drive by you have a bad feeling that something that tragic happened right there.”

Sources: America Now

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