HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- A 16-year-old girl convicted of soliciting her father's murder faces the possibility of life imprisonment at her sentencing in Hagerstown.
Danielle Black was due in court Friday afternoon, nearly one year after Billy Lee Black was fatally stabbed on Halloween in an alley behind the family's Hagerstown home.
Danielle was convicted as an adult in July of asking a friend on a school bus to kill her dad to end the beatings she claimed to have suffered.
Police couldn't confirm that Danielle had been abused, and her stepmother denied that any beatings had occurred.
The murder allegedly was committed by another of Danielle's friends, 20-year-old Alec Eger. His first-degree murder trial is scheduled for early February.
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