Below is an update on the California woman who was set on fire outside of a strip club earlier this month. A donation fund has been set up to help the victim and her children, with more information below.

 

 

Woman charged in attack on Simi exotic dancer

 

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/feb/12/woman-charged-in-attack-on-simi-exotic-dancer/

 

Prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles woman with attempted premeditated murder of an exotic dancer who was doused with flammable liquid and set ablaze outside a club.

 

The district attorney’s office says 27-year-old Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom was also charged Wednesday with mayhem and torture. The defendant was set for arraignment in Van Nuys Superior Court.

 

Roberta Busby, 27 of Simi Valley, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

 

Theriault-Odom allegedly exchanged words with the dancer outside the Babes N’ Beer nightclub early Thursday, doused her with an accelerant contained in a soda bottle and set her afire.

 

The defendant was later arrested with 22-year-old Nathaniel Petrillo, but prosecutors declined to charge him.

 

Theriault-Odom and Petrillo were arrested Monday in a motel on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood following a five day manhunt.

 

Busby, who graduated from Apollo High School in 2001, is a single mother with two small children who had worked as a bill collector before being laid off recently.

 

“She went to work, and she came home to her kids,” Busby’s friend Crystal Mendoza said last week.

 

Busby’s family has set up a fund for her children. The fund is set up under Rodrigo Busby for the benefit of the Children of Roberta Busby, and donations can be made at any Washington Mutual bank. They also can be mailed to 3835 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. No. 256, Westlake Village, CA 91362.