Woman Pleads Guilty in Religious Shrine Fire
Sunitha Budithi, of Woodridge, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after a religious shrine in her apartment caught fire while her two young children were in the home.
A Woodridge woman pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection to the May 2011 apartment fire in Seven Bridges that endangered two young children. According to The Daily Herald, Sunitha Budithi, 40, was set to stand trial Wednesday but entered the guilty plea Jan. 7. Budithi was given two years of court supervision and must spend five days in a sheriff's work alternative program, according to the Herald. Budithi left her two children alone when she went to move her car in the parking lot of the apartment complex in the 6600 block of Double Eagle Drive. While she was out, an unattended open flame in a closet being used as a shrine started a fire in the apartment. The two children were found by first responders of the Lisle-Woodridge …
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