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Youngstown family waiting for answers one month after triple fatal fire
It has been more than one month since the bodies of a 10-year-old girl and her grandparents were found in their burning home on Powersway.
Monday, May 4th 2015, 7:30 PM EDT
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It has been more than one month since the bodies of a 10-year-old girl and her grandparents were found in their burning home on Powersway.
The family says what has been most difficult is waiting for answers.
It was during the early morning hours on March 30 when smoke and flames engulfed the Powersway home. Killing Bill and Judy Schmidt and their 10-year-old granddaughter Corrine Gump.
Corrine's stepmother Lisa Cappitti says that for her and the child's father Ethan Gump everyday is a struggle.
"It consumes your whole mind. You want justice for her," Cappitti said.
Youngstown Police Detectives and Youngstown Arson Investigators were on the scene almost immediately that morning.
That's because the 10-year-old fire victim was also the victim of an alleged rape in 2014, and the man charged with the crime was due in court that day.
Even after searching rape suspect Robert Seman's Canfield home, he has not been charged in relation to the fire. Seman will still stand trial for the rape. The fire investigation is on-going.
"Definitely we want justice for her and we want to keep her name out there. We want to push as many issues for sexual abuse for any child that is going through this because you have to speak out, you have to tell somebody, and Corrine was very brave," Cappitti said.
Cappitti feels Youngstown Police Detectives and Youngstown Fire are working day and night to solve this case.
The arson investigator says some evidence has come back in the case, but they expect it will be another week or two before more evidence comes back from the State's Crime Lab. Exactly what that evidence is has not been revealed.
The family says what has been most difficult is waiting for answers.
It was during the early morning hours on March 30 when smoke and flames engulfed the Powersway home. Killing Bill and Judy Schmidt and their 10-year-old granddaughter Corrine Gump.
Corrine's stepmother Lisa Cappitti says that for her and the child's father Ethan Gump everyday is a struggle.
"It consumes your whole mind. You want justice for her," Cappitti said.
Youngstown Police Detectives and Youngstown Arson Investigators were on the scene almost immediately that morning.
That's because the 10-year-old fire victim was also the victim of an alleged rape in 2014, and the man charged with the crime was due in court that day.
Even after searching rape suspect Robert Seman's Canfield home, he has not been charged in relation to the fire. Seman will still stand trial for the rape. The fire investigation is on-going.
"Definitely we want justice for her and we want to keep her name out there. We want to push as many issues for sexual abuse for any child that is going through this because you have to speak out, you have to tell somebody, and Corrine was very brave," Cappitti said.
Cappitti feels Youngstown Police Detectives and Youngstown Fire are working day and night to solve this case.
The arson investigator says some evidence has come back in the case, but they expect it will be another week or two before more evidence comes back from the State's Crime Lab. Exactly what that evidence is has not been revealed.
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