Photographer: Elijah Henderson
“Terri-lynn Robison stands in the burned-out shell of her bedroom, still in disbelief that her husband set fire to the bed while she was in the room.
Last year, following a heated argument, she told her husband of 11 years their relationship was over and started packing his clothes.
“He went upstairs, and I thought he was going to leave,” she told CBC News. “He came back down with a barbecue lighter and set the whole bedskirt on fire, just from one end straight to the other.”
Robison grabbed the dog and her cellphone and escaped unharmed. Her husband, Adam Van Es, was arrested that night and later charged with one count of arson with disregard for human life. He pleaded guilty and in March was sentenced to two years less a day.
“I’m lucky I got out,” said Robinson, who lives in Collingwood, Ont., about 150 km northwest of Toronto,” wrote Rachel Houlihan, Diana Swain, and Chelsea Gomez for CBC News on April 11, 2017.
Houlihan, Swain and Gomez continued, “What luck she had would soon run out. Despite being a victim of arson, Robison’s insurance company, Allstate, denied her claim. The company says her “VIP” homeowner policy is “null and void” because her husband, who was insured under the same policy, had intentionally set the fire.”
Read the full article here.
Subscribe to: Post Comments (RSS2)