Maryland Teen Gets Ten Years In Prison For Father's Murder

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- A 16-year-old Hagerstown girl has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for soliciting her father's murder.

Danielle Black appeared in court Friday afternoon in the western Maryland city, nearly one year after Billy Lee Black was fatally stabbed on Halloween in an alley behind the family's 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.