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09-18-2007, 10:52 AM
By ANGELA K. BROWN - Associated Press Writer
HALTOM CITY, Texas(AP) A woman whose three young daughters were seriously burned was arrested, and neighbors said the mother told a fire investigator she had doused the children with gasoline and set them on fire.
The oldest girl, just 7, screamed, "Why mommy? Why mommy? Why did you do this to me?" after she and her sisters were pulled out of their burning house Saturday, neighbor Kevin Lopez said Monday.
The woman, Alysha Green, 29, had no answer for the fire investigator, Lopez said.
"She was crying and saying `I'm sorry' and she didn't know why she did it," Lopez told The Associated Press.
The girls _ ages 7, 5 and 3 _ remained in the burn unit of a Dallas hospital Monday; their conditions were not released.
Green, 29, who also was burned and remained hospitalized, was arrested Saturday on three counts of causing serious bodily injury to a child, police said. Each count carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Greg Donihoo, who pulled the two oldest girls out of the smoke-filled house, said Green told authorities that she coaxed her daughters into the closet by saying they were playing a game. He also said he saw investigators remove a gas can from the house.
Police would not confirm neighbors' accounts of what happened or fire officials' earlier statements that Green put her daughters in a closet, poured gasoline on them and herself and set them on fire.
"It's part of an ongoing investigation, and we're not going to discuss specific details of what occurred," police Sgt. Terry Stayer said.
Lopez said that after hearing a commotion on Saturday just before noon, he looked toward the Greens' house a few doors down and saw the girls and their mother in the yard, screaming.
HALTOM CITY, Texas(AP) A woman whose three young daughters were seriously burned was arrested, and neighbors said the mother told a fire investigator she had doused the children with gasoline and set them on fire.
The oldest girl, just 7, screamed, "Why mommy? Why mommy? Why did you do this to me?" after she and her sisters were pulled out of their burning house Saturday, neighbor Kevin Lopez said Monday.
The woman, Alysha Green, 29, had no answer for the fire investigator, Lopez said.
"She was crying and saying `I'm sorry' and she didn't know why she did it," Lopez told The Associated Press.
The girls _ ages 7, 5 and 3 _ remained in the burn unit of a Dallas hospital Monday; their conditions were not released.
Green, 29, who also was burned and remained hospitalized, was arrested Saturday on three counts of causing serious bodily injury to a child, police said. Each count carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Greg Donihoo, who pulled the two oldest girls out of the smoke-filled house, said Green told authorities that she coaxed her daughters into the closet by saying they were playing a game. He also said he saw investigators remove a gas can from the house.
Police would not confirm neighbors' accounts of what happened or fire officials' earlier statements that Green put her daughters in a closet, poured gasoline on them and herself and set them on fire.
"It's part of an ongoing investigation, and we're not going to discuss specific details of what occurred," police Sgt. Terry Stayer said.
Lopez said that after hearing a commotion on Saturday just before noon, he looked toward the Greens' house a few doors down and saw the girls and their mother in the yard, screaming.