Los Angeles Strip Clubs: Roberta Busby, Stripper Set on Fire, Blasts Attacker: You’ll "Answer to God"
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Rejected club dancer Rianne Theriault-Odom, 28, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after dousing a stripper in gasoline and setting her on fire at a Tarzana club.
Photo: Roberta Busby before she was burned.
Theriault-Odom, mother of four, was sentenced in Van Nuys Superior Court for the Feb. 5, 2009 attack on Roberta Busby, a 28-year old stripper from Simi Valley. The two women had been feuding when Theriault-Odom doused Busby with gasoline from a soda bottle and set her on fire at a club called “Babes & Beer.” Employees and patrons used curtains to put out the flames.
Photo: Rianne Theriault-Odom’s mug shot
The badly scared victim has burns over 40 percent of her body and has had more than two dozen skin grafts.
Busby, mother of two, told her attacker through a letter in court, “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.”
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