Parents of children critically burned indicted in Colonial Heights house fire investigation

By: WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff | Posted at 5:32 PM, Sep 06, 2023 and last updated 11:08 PM, Sep 06, 2023

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. – The parents of two young children critically burned in a house fire in Colonial Heights are facing multiple criminal charges.

Court records show that Joshua Cabaniss and Cierra Pitts were each indicted by a grand jury Tuesday. Both face nine charges each, including three counts of abuse of a child – disregard for life, three counts of cruelty to a child and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The couple’s three children and the grandmother were inside the Covington Road home when flames broke out May 15. ... Their 5-year-old son escaped, while a bystander rescued the grandmother. ... The other two children – ages one and two – were rescued by first responders and brought to VCU’s burn center with third- and fourth-degree burns.



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Cierra Pitts and Joshua Cabaniss

WTVR CBS 6 is working to learn more about the criminal charges that Cabaniss and Pitts are now facing.

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