
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 5, 1994                   TAG: 9405050179
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: HARRISONBURG                                LENGTH: Short

TEENS SENTENCED IN KILLING

A judge has ordered a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy to be placed in the custody of the Department of Youth and Family Services for murdering the girl's mother.

``The only regret I have in pronouncing this sentence is that I cannot impose a harsher punishment,'' Rockingham County Circuit Judge Dennis Hupp said Wednesday.

Hupp said the murder of Marilyn Stearn Fries was the worst case he's dealt with in nearly two decades as a lawyer, prosecutor and judge.

He ordered Camellia Fries and Shawn Roadcap to an indeterminate commitment to the Department of Youth and Family Services learning center. The children could be held until their 21st birthdays.

As Camellia Fries was led out of the courtroom, a relative of Marilyn Fries leaned forward and said something to her. ``Oh, go to hell, all y'all,'' the girl said in response.

Roadcap and Camellia Fries were convicted by a Circuit Court jury April 15 of the first-degree murder of Camellia's mother, who was stabbed to death at the family's home Sept. 4.

Camellia's sister, Stephanie, 12, was convicted by a separate jury April 27 as an accessory to second-degree murder. She will be sentenced June 2.

The prosecution has said the girls hated their mother and were upset with her because she planned to send them to a military-style boarding school.

by CNB