A Warren man will spend at least 17 years in prison after he set fire to a house with his own child — and his sexual assault victim — inside.
President Judge Maureen Skerda sentenced 25 year old Jackson Kent Knappenberger to a minimum of 202 months in connection with the incident last December.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, Knappenberger was angry at a woman he was “romantically involved,” so he poured an accelerant on both doors, set them on fire, and ran.
Among the other people in the house at the time were the woman’s husband, Knappenberger’s daughter, and a 12 year old girl whom Knappenberger was convicted of molesting in May. He was sentenced to four years for that assault.