Children burned in fire, mother charged

A fire in Unitedville almost claimed the lives of two children locked inside their home. Police report that around nine thirty p.m. on Saturday September eighteenth, thirty year old Raquel Locke left her home and locked her one-year-old and four-year-old sons inside. Later that night, neighbors saw the house on fire and broke in to rescue the children. When Locke returned home at two a.m. she found her house burnt to the ground. The one-year-old was burned on his face, upper body, and right foot and was taken to the San Ignacio Hospital. Raquel Locke has been charged with two counts of deserting a child. Locke has been granted bail and the children are in her care.