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The attorney for a teenage girl charged with setting a fatal fire in New York said his client has a Learnin Disability, according to a story by Kareem Fahim and John Holl in the New York Times (NY, US). The 17-year old girl is charged with starting a fire in an abandoned building where a homeless man was sleeping.

Prosecutors say that on Tuesday night, Ms. Marino, a high school junior, started a fire in an abandoned Waldbaum’s supermarket on New Dorp Lane. She knew Mr. [William B.] Lowther was sleeping inside the building, prosecutors said.

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Mr. Fonte, Ms. Marino’s lawyer, said she had epilepsy and a learning disability, and had been receiving treatment by a neurologist and a psychologist. He said that she was taking several different medications.

We shall have to wait and see whether the Learning Disability will be part of the defense in this case.

Link Mr. Fahim and Mr. Holl’s story.