BELLEVILLE – Tenants have filed a lawsuit against their landlords claiming the East St. Louis residence they were living in had no working smoke detectors when a fire broke out, tragically killing five children living on the property.
A St. Clair County grand jury on Friday indicted the mother of five children on charges that she is at least partially to blame for their deaths in a fire.
Sabrina Dunigan, 34, was said to have left their apartment to pick up her boyfriend from work when the fire broke out on the day of her birthday on August 6 at around 3am.
A woman has been charged with child endangerment in the August fire deaths of her five young children, who she allegedly left in a southwest Illinois apartment.