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November 10th, 2010, 09:15 AM
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Three Greenville County children were injured Tuesday morning when they broke out of their padlocked mobile home to escape a fire, according to investigators.
Tuesday afternoon, the childrens' mother, 31-year-old Angel Gilliland, and her common-law husband, 42-year-old Alberto Rodriquez-Carrera, were charged with three counts of unlawful neglect of a child. At a hearing Tuesday night, a judge set their bond at $60,000 each.
Deputies are still trying to determine, among other things, why there were padlocks on the doors in the first place, and why the children were not in school.
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Investigators did not release the names of the children, but said they were two boys, ages 9 and 16, and a 13-year-old girl.
The fire started about 9 a.m. in a mobile home on Batson Drive off Cedar Lane Road in Berea, deputies said. The doors of the mobile home were padlocked at both entrances, so the children were forced to break a window in the back of the home to escape the fire, investigators said.
James Trotter, a retired Berea firefighter who lives nearby, said he heard screams, saw smoke and called the fire into dispatchers directly using a radio issued by the Fire Department. Trotter is still a reserve firefighter, which is why he has a radio, he said.
The 9-year-old suffered smoke inhalation, the 13-year-old was cut by the broken glass and the 16-year-old was taken to the hospital as a precaution, deputies said.
Investigators believe the children's mother had left to take her boyfriend to work when the fire broke out.
"There's not a reason that I can come up with -- why a rational individual would lock both the entrance and exits to a residence with children inside," Armstrong said. "There's a myriad of charges they could face. It's all going to depend ... on what our investigators find out."
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Remnants of mattresses were piled outside the burned home, Tuesday at noon. Investigators said the kids did not sleep on them. Instead, the mother removed the springs from inside the mattresses to sell the metal, they said.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the children were still at the hospital, but they had been released into the custody of the Department of Social Services.
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Three Greenville County children were injured Tuesday morning when they broke out of their padlocked mobile home to escape a fire, according to investigators.
Tuesday afternoon, the childrens' mother, 31-year-old Angel Gilliland, and her common-law husband, 42-year-old Alberto Rodriquez-Carrera, were charged with three counts of unlawful neglect of a child. At a hearing Tuesday night, a judge set their bond at $60,000 each.
Deputies are still trying to determine, among other things, why there were padlocks on the doors in the first place, and why the children were not in school.
[...]
Investigators did not release the names of the children, but said they were two boys, ages 9 and 16, and a 13-year-old girl.
The fire started about 9 a.m. in a mobile home on Batson Drive off Cedar Lane Road in Berea, deputies said. The doors of the mobile home were padlocked at both entrances, so the children were forced to break a window in the back of the home to escape the fire, investigators said.
James Trotter, a retired Berea firefighter who lives nearby, said he heard screams, saw smoke and called the fire into dispatchers directly using a radio issued by the Fire Department. Trotter is still a reserve firefighter, which is why he has a radio, he said.
The 9-year-old suffered smoke inhalation, the 13-year-old was cut by the broken glass and the 16-year-old was taken to the hospital as a precaution, deputies said.
Investigators believe the children's mother had left to take her boyfriend to work when the fire broke out.
"There's not a reason that I can come up with -- why a rational individual would lock both the entrance and exits to a residence with children inside," Armstrong said. "There's a myriad of charges they could face. It's all going to depend ... on what our investigators find out."
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
[...]
Remnants of mattresses were piled outside the burned home, Tuesday at noon. Investigators said the kids did not sleep on them. Instead, the mother removed the springs from inside the mattresses to sell the metal, they said.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the children were still at the hospital, but they had been released into the custody of the Department of Social Services.
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