Prosecutors say a 21-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022.

A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said.

Xavier Batten pleaded guilty in January to one felony count of possessing an unregistered destructive device and one misdemeanor count of intentionally damaging a reproductive health services facility.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney also sentenced Batten, of Brooksville, Florida, to three years of probation and ordered him to pay $1,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Carney said Batten had committed a “cowardly crime” that showed “no empathy for women and their rights,” according to the statement. He has been in federal custody since July 2023.

  • OsaErisXero
    12•6 months ago

    Why can’t we have that Gene Roddenberry Star Trek future now? 😭

    There was at least one apocalypse-scale event between here and there, so be careful what you’re wishing for on that front

      • OsaErisXero
        7•6 months ago

        September, according to the lore. And the sad part is there’s a non-zero chance of it actually happening on schedule.

        But we’ve got the Irish reunification to look forward to, which is nice :)

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
      1•6 months ago

      Oh, I know. And it was a nasty one at that. We humans are good at making messes. I was literally thinking that as I posted. But… I was also imagining we could fast forward to then. Please?

      One can dream.