Prosecutor to Charge Miami County Girl as Juvenile

Miami County Prosecutor Eric Huneryager says he will charge a 12-year-old girl as a juvenile for allegedly setting her mother’s bed on fire while the woman slept. Huneryager says he won’t charge the girl as an adult because of her age and because she has no criminal history. Huneryager says the juvenile justice system will provide services to determine why the girl acted out the way she did and to make sure it doesn't happen again. A juvenile detention center is holding the girl on preliminary charges of attempted murder and arson. The Miami Circuit Court in Peru has scheduled the girl’s first court appearance for tomorrow. Police say that after the girl set fire to her mother’s bed, she 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 awoke in time to extinguish the fire and was not injured.