Miami County Girl, 12, Allegedly Tries to Kill Mother

A 12-year-old Miami County girl faces charges of attempted murder and arson this morning. Police say the girl set fire to her mother’s bed while her mother was sleeping, put her eight-year-old brother and six-year-old sister in her mother’s car and began driving down U-S 31. The mother woke up in time to put out the fire, but not before the children were gone. Police say they reached the 12-year-old girl on her mother’s cell phone while she was driving and convinced her to stop. Police say the girl claimed that an abductor had forced her to drive away while he followed in another vehicle, but they determined that story was false.