Following trial this week for Keyona Bingham, the woman charged in connection with a fatal house fire that killed her two children in 2020, a jury found her guilty of two counts of reckless homicide.
According to Commonwealth Attorney Carrie-Ovey Wiggins, the jury also recommended a sentence of five years on each count, to run consecutively for a total of ten years. Bingham had originally been charged with manslaughter in the deaths, after she left the three-year-old and seven-month-old alone in the Jefferson Street residence during the time frame the fire began.
Both children were pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy determined they died as a result of smoke and other products of combustion inhalation.
Final sentencing was set for September 9 in Trigg Circuit Court at 10 a.m.