Indiana man sentenced to 10 years for residential cross burning

(CNN) - A 22-year-old Indiana man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for burning an 8-foot cross in front of a house where a woman lived with her three biracial children.

The sentencing of Kyle Milbourn of Muncie came three months after he was convicted by a jury of violating federal civil rights laws by erecting the large wooden cross, dousing it with gasoline and setting it on fire specifically to intimidate the residents because of their race.

"It is deeply disturbing that in this day and age, circumstances still require us to prosecute cases that involve burning an 8-foot wooden cross in front of the home of a biracial family," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Grace Chung Becker, who heads the Justice Department Civil Rights Division.

– From Justice Producer Terry Frieden in Washington