The State : 2 Sentenced in Bombing Case

A federal judge imposed stiff prison terms on the first of the Rev. Dorman Owens’ followers to be sentenced for conspiring to bomb a San Diego abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge Earl B. Gillam sentenced Cheryl Sullenger, 32, to three years, and her husband, Randall, 35, to an 18-month term. The Sullengers are the first of eight members of the fundamentalist Bible Missionary Fellowship in Santee to be sentenced for their part in the attempted bombing of the Family Planning Associates Medical Group. The gasoline bomb, however, failed to go off when wind blew out the fuse. “I agree with all of you that these are good people,” Gillam told defense attorneys, who argued for light sentences because the Sullengers, devout Christians, felt remorse and now understood that their biblical convictions were no excuse to violate the law.