New Springville, Staten Island, NY – An Elm Park woman whose son died in a horrific car crash last year stands accused of intentionally setting Wednesday’s fire inside the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services.
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Korisha Shipley, 55, of Elm Park, who has worked for the agency for 13 years, was charged with arson and criminal mischief after videocameras inside the agency’s second-floor offices at 2795 Richmond Ave. caught her leaving a filing closet moments before a small blaze broke out inside.
Mrs. Shipley, pleaded not guilty during her arraignment in Stapleton Criminal Court. She is also a suspected of being responsible for other incidents that have taken place over the past two weeks at the agency. “These incidents included bomb threats, setting of small fires and disturbing graffiti.”
But she and her husband steadfastly denied the charges. “They’re scandalizing my wife’s name and it’s ridiculous,” and she feels she is being made a scapegoat. “They cannot pin it on anyone else and are using the loss of my son and medications I take against me,” she said.
She says that she sees a psychologist and a therapist, and noted that she takes prescribed medications — but only at night to help her sleep.
“I never take them to work,” she insisted.