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A Texas woman was sentenced to six years in prison in connection with a 2023 arson attack on a church in Washington state, according to federal prosecutors.

Natasha Marie O'Dell, 38, was sentenced Thursday on three felonies for the arson of Seattle Laestadian Lutheran Church in Snohomish County, Washington , the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington announced.

O'Dell pleaded guilty earlier this year to arson, damage to religious property and obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs.

"This offense was devastating and dangerous," U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead said at the sentencing hearing on Thursday. "Ms. O'Dell deliberately set fire to a church, causing complete des

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