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Jun 22, 2007 11:29 pm US/Eastern

Paperwork Keeps Larimer Mother Behind Bars

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Confusion over paperwork kept one of the mothers charged in the connection to a fatal fire in Larimer that killed five children behind bars.

Furaha Love and Shakita Mangham both face identical charges after Pittsburgh Police say they left their seven children unattended hours before a deadly fire broke out last week.

A court-ordered mental evaluation at the jail's behavioral unit was waived for Mangham because she is under the care of a doctor and a therapist. She posted bond and was released.

Love, who was willing to post bail as well, was kept in jail until she could undergo her mental evaluation. Her attorney Ernest Sharif says he was never made aware his client had to get a mental evaluation. "Well there's some type of confusion between the judge and the jail and the bail agency," he said

Sharif told KDKA he was pushing for his client to be released Friday.

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