A New York woman who set the wrong house on fire in retaliation for an alleged attack on her dad, killing a 5-year-old boy who was asleep inside, was found guilty Thursday of murder and arson .

It took Monroe County jurors just 30 minutes — 15 on Wednesday and 15 on Thursday — to convict Taquida Hendrix, 31, of second-degree murder and first-degree arson for the July 2024 house fire in Rochester that took Malakai Stovall's life, according to local NBC affiliate WHEC .

"It does make me feel a little bit better than I thought it would," Malakai's mother, Brianna Akers, told WHEC. "At least be able to hear and see the same thing I did and that is guilty of murder and arson and everything she was charged of."

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