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September 29, 2006

Station Fire: 'This was no accident'

Eileen DiBonaventura, mother of Albert Anthony DiBonaventura, admitted she was having difficultly with the court's impact-statement rules.

"These guidelines leave little room to make true impact statements," she said.

"I'm not a public speaker, I'm merely Mom," she said. "Al was just shy of 6 feet and towered over the two of us. Would be 22 years young this Nov. 26 had his life not been put in jeopardy."

"We always had heart-to-heart conversations. We were a very close-knit family. The hardest thing we have ever had to do, Judge Darigan, is to bury our son. I an unable to put into words how much we miss our son."

I have said this before ... we are sentenced to life without parole."

Later she added, "We seek no revenge. We seek merely justice, accountability and hoped-for serious consenquece. We understand this was not an intended mass murder, but when defendants play Russian roullette on a continuous basis this was no accident."

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