Florida Man Sentenced for Instructing Planned Parenthood Firebombing

Xavier Batten receives 42 months in federal prison for aiding in the 2022 attack on a Costa Mesa clinic through remote guidance.

Batten, 21, pleaded guilty to possessing an explosive device and damaging a reproductive health facility.
He instructed Chance Brannon and Tibet Ergul on constructing the Molotov cocktail used in the attack.
Batten's violent and antisemitic online activity included searches on neo-Nazi ideology and mass violence.
Judge Cormac J. Carney condemned Batten's actions as a 'cowardly crime' with 'no empathy for women and their rights.'
Batten will also serve three years of probation and pay a $1,000 fine.