Judge Orders Statue Of Liberty Climber Therese Okoumou To Home Detention
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A judge has ordered July 4th Statue Of Liberty climber Therese Okoumou to home detention enforced by electronic monitoring after she scaled a building in Austin, Texas, last week.
On Feb. 20, Okoumou climbed the four-story Austin headquarters of the non-profit organization Southwest Key, which runs 24 facilities to house undocumented immigrant children in Texas, Arizona, and California.
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The serial scaler said she was protesting the separation of families at the southern border. She eventually jumped from a lower level and was taken away on a stretcher.
Okoumou climbed Lady Liberty last year and was convicted of several misdemeanor charges, including trespassing.
