Why was the woman in a cage and why was a lion near the cage to begin with?
Did you even attempt to read the article? I mean even the excerpt at the top of the page has the information you seek.
The young woman worked as a volunteer at the big cat haven. She was cleaning the lion's pen as the lion was in a smaller enclosure being fed.
Apparently it was an exercise in wish fulfillment by a narcissistic youth. Unlike most risky behaviors committed by narcissistic youth this one had immediate consequences.
“Why was the woman in a cage and why was a lion near the cage to begin with?”
That question is probably not within the coroner’s purview.
I think they meant Kitchen, she escaped the kitchen somehow.