Follow up: Woman injured in fire was trapped by doors to room (mother charged abuse vulnerable adul)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10365078

Published Monday June 23, 2008
Woman injured in fire was trapped by doors to room
BY KEVIN COLE AND LYNN SAFRANEK
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS

The doors of Tawnisha Harbour's bedroom could not be opened from inside the room, according to police reports.

One door was tied from the outside with a bed sheet. The other had only one doorknob — on the outside of the bedroom, the reports stated.

So when a fire broke out in her house Saturday night, Harbour, who relies on a wheelchair, had no way to escape.


Cherie Harbour


A police investigation revealed that Harbour's mother, Cherie Harbour, was responsible for "securing the room," the reports stated.

Police arrested Cherie Harbour, 40, Sunday on suspicion of abuse of a vulnerable adult.

Tawnisha Harbour, 23, was taken to the Creighton University Medical Center on Saturday night, then transferred to the burn unit at the Nebraska Medical Center.

A Nebraska Medical Center spokesman said today that no information on her condition was being released.

Officer Michael Pecha, a police spokesman, said Cherie Harbour was arrested after an investigation of the fire at 6557 Maple St. She was being held at the Douglas County Jail on $25,000 bail.

Harbour must put up 10 percent of that amount, or $2,500, to be released.

FULL story at link.

[Hekate]

1. Kick. Thanks for the update.

The door was secured from the outside? :wtf:

Hekate

[Omaha Steve]

2. Self limit of one.

Kick.