HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - A woman accused in the 2,000-acre Carolina Forest wildfire is agreeing to take a diversion program as her attorney claims she was used as a “sacrificial lamb.”

Alexandra Bialousow’s trial was set to start Monday, but her attorney, Jonny McCoy, says that the South Carolina Forestry Commission offered a diversion program, and she took it because the offer was too good to pass up.

McCoy says that this means there will be no determination of innocence or guilt in the case, and the charges will be expunged from the record once she completes what is asked of her, which could be some training or community service.

Bialousow was accused of starting a fire to burn debris on March 1, 2025, in a backyard fire pit close to a tree line in the Covington Lakes community.

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