Mother tells court she begged God 'take me and not the children' as family jumped from upstairs window after home firebombed

"A judge sentencing a man for a horrific arson attack said it was by 'the grace of God' that four children and their mother were not burnt to death."

"Harrowing evidence of the children's mother, blinded by thick black smoke, frantically feeling for them in the dark as they tried to escape was heard at Galway Circuit Court."

A judge described a recent arson attack as horrific, emphasizing that it was by the grace of God that a mother and her four children escaped without being burnt to death. The court heard harrowing evidence of the mother, who was blinded by thick black smoke, desperately searching for her children in the dark as they attempted to flee the scene. The incident highlights the dangers of such attacks and the miraculous survival of the family involved.

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