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Iowa Woman Sentenced to 25 Years in Hate Attacks on 2 Children

Iowa Woman Sentenced to 25 Years in Hate Attacks on 2 Children
Nicole Poole Franklin in a file photo. Polk County Jail via AP
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
8/20/2021|Updated: 8/20/2021

DES MOINES, Iowa—An Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges.

Nicole Poole Franklin had already been sentenced to up to 25 years, including a mandatory minimum of 17 years and 6 months, on state attempted murder charges in the Dec. 9, 2019, attacks in Des Moines.

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