Victim's Sister Critical Of Police Bonuses After Cheshire Home Invasion

Cindy Renn, the sister of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, is criticizing the Town of Cheshire for handing out bonuses to three police officers in 2007, the year of the infamous Cheshire home invasion.

Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were killed during that invasion, and Renn has been a vocal critic of the way the Cheshire Police Department responded to the 2007 incident. Meanwhile, The Hartford Courant reports that the Cheshire Police Chief and deputy chief each got $450 bonuses that year, and a captain got a $350 bonus.

"I certainly couldn't have taken any money or even have asked for it,'' Renn told the newspaper. "I wouldn't want to say I made any profit off of such a horrible case, especially if I felt we hadn't done anything we could to save them."