18-Year Sentence for Anti-LGBTQ Ohio Church Bomber Upheld

A member of a White supremacist group convicted of firebombing an LGBTQ-friendly Ohio church was properly sentenced to 18 years in prison, a federal appeals court said Friday.

The lower court’s sentence for Aimenn Penny was reasonable because while in custody he tried to orchestrate a similar attack on an Ohio theater, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said.

Penny, of Alliance, Ohio, pleaded guilty in 2023 to throwing Molotov cocktails at the Community Church of Chesterland. Penny, who was 20 at the time of the attack, was motivated by the church’s plan to hold two ...