CASPER, Wyo. — The 22-year-old woman accused of setting fire to the Wellspring Health Access Clinic in Casper, Wyoming, pled guilty to arson of a building used in interstate commerce, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Wyoming.
Lorna Roxanne Green, appeared before U.S District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on July 20 to enter her guilty plea. She was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service following the hearing.
According to the release, at the hearing, Green admitted that she set fire to the clinic on May 25, 2022, which was under construction at the time and planned to offer OB/GYN services, gender-affirming care and abortion procedures. Green was arrested 10 months later on March 21, and then indicted by the federal grand jury in May.
She originally pled not guilty in June and then reportedly reached a plea deal ahead of a planned July 24 trial. With Thursday’s guilty plea, the trial has been canceled.
Green is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 6 and faces a minimum of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years in prison, up to a $250,000 fine, three years of supervised release following her incarceration, a $100 special assessment and restitution.
“Judge Johnson will determine Green’s sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors,” states the release.
Abortions remain legal in Wyoming after a Teton County judge granted a temporary restraining order against enforcing the state’s medication abortion ban in June. The trial for Johnson v. Wyoming will decide whether abortion will remain legal in Wyoming and is set to take place across three days in Teton County in April 2024.
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