Woman Sentenced To Life In Prison For Setting Stripper On Fire

POLITICS

» by Danielle Canada March 7, 2010, 11:30am

A 28-year-old California woman will spend the rest of her life in jail for attempting to kill Roberta Busby by setting her on fire.

Rianne Theriault-Odom, a mother of four, was sentenced Friday for the 2009 attack on Busby, a stripper at that time.

Prosecutors believe Odom, who was rejected as a dancer for the club, became enraged at Busby and doused her with gasoline from a soda bottle before setting her on fire at “Babes And Beer.”

Busby submitted a letter to be read to her attacker in court saying,

“Now you're going to feel the same heartache that I felt when I couldn't hug, kiss or play with my kids or even talk to my kids. I guess I'll never know what was going through your mind that night, but one day you'll have to answer to God, and that's more justice than any prison can do to you.”


Busby has burns on 40% of her body and had to have more than two dozen skin grafts.

Comment Comments 3 Tags Tags: , , , ,