The Latest: Families worry if collapse victims get justice
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The latest developments in the sentencing for two men convicted in the 2013 Philadelphia building collapse that filled six people: (All times local)
11:30 a.m.
Relatives of six people killed in a Philadelphia building collapse in 2013 say they are distressed that some people they deem responsible have not been punished.
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Their comments come as two demolition contractors hired at a cut-rate price to take down an empty store are being sentenced Friday for the deaths.
Contractors Griffin Campbell and Sean Benschop (BEN-'skop) face sentencing for involuntary manslaughter and other crimes. Campbell's wife says he hoped the $112,000 contract would be his big break after years running a lunch truck.
Prosecutors say Campbell ignored safety standards before a towering brick wall collapsed onto a thrift store.
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City Treasurer Nancy Winkler calls it "disturbing and distressing" that they had to sue the building owner and others to seek full justice over the collapse that killed her 24-year-old daughter.
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8:30 a.m.
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Two demolition contractors being sentenced in a deadly Philadelphia building collapse admit some responsibility but they also call themselves scapegoats for the people who hired them.
Prosecutors say contractor Griffin Campbell cut corners and caused a four-story brick wall to collapse on an adjacent thrift store two years ago, killing six people and injuring a dozen others.
Campbell was hired at a fraction of the going rate for the job.
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Prosecutors will ask a judge Friday to sentence Campbell to 25 to 50 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and other charges. A jury cleared him of third-degree murder.
Subcontractor Sean Benschop (BEN'-skop) pleaded guilty to the involuntary manslaughter counts. He could get far less time for his trial testimony against Griffin.
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This story has been corrected to show one of the defendant's last name is spelled Benschop, not Benscop.