Autistic Boy Set On Fire At Sleepover

And what charges are the adults, who were in the home, facing?

No kidding! That’s ass backwards – the supervising parents of the sleepover deserve those charges dammit, not the mother who didn’t think that the sleepover would be such a big party.

One thing he said bothers me. “They threw lots of water on the carpet and all they could find was Dr. Pepper for me”

Really? I would think a burning 7th grader would be the top priority. Damn, nothing like being shown how unimportant adults think you are when you’re in agony.

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

Awww the last line in the second source article….

“The 7th grader said he has no idea why his friend would want to burn him.”

That made me so sad to read that. Kids that age know fire hurts….this isn’t a prank gone bad or some stupid shit- this was intentional assault. I don’t know if he was maybe the kid they invited over just to laugh at behind his back and act like they’re his friends, or what- I do think that this boy had not one person in that house look out for him at all. Water for the carpet and carbonated DR. PEPPER for the burning child?!?!?! Pffft. I hope his mom does NOT get charged, (WTF?!?!?!) and I hope she ends up owning that house he got burned in……

No kidding. They use water to put out the fire on the carpet but use Dr. Pepper to douse the flames on the poor kid? The mother should not be charged for allowing her son to try and have fun like any normal kid would like to have. To charge the mother for this is almost like making the victim and his family a victim the second time around.

Nope, kids are little spoiled shits these days because they know they can’t be beaten, lest their parents end up here on DD.

American society’s turned into a fucking bunch of pussies where a parent can be arrested for spanking (or Grandpa can be arrested for “assault” after his shit grandkids spread peanut butter on his mouth…not quite comprehending that when you get to be THAT old, your lips are pretty soft and weak and you could probably be terrified if you’re sleeping to think you can’t open your mouth).

If they are going to charge the boys mother for reckless endangerment then the adults in that house better be getting charged with the same thing as well. That little POS in the making needs to be put in a psych ward or something. What kid would think setting someone on fire is a harmless prank?

This is beyond acting immorally, the little fucker set him on fire, i think some spanking is in fucking order, oh yea and also set his ps3/wii/xbox on fire in the backyard in front of his ass if he is not in jail.

Really? The guy wasn’t terrified, he was passed out drunk. He got pissed and beat three young children and his wife. While I agree that the laws are a little strick and you shouldn’t be arrested for spanking a child, this dude is not a shining example of the injustice suffered by making these laws too strict. He was a drunken prick who couldn’t handle a little joke.

I don’t think that’s true at all. I was bullied a lot in jr. High and high school, but years later ended up individually befriending several of the people who had been the cruelest to me. One even admitted that throughout jr. high he had gone to school every day with the intention of making me cry.

When they apologized to me (some literally crying), they all said the same thing- they were miserable at home. Their parents were frequently abusive, but neglectful at best, they hated themselves, and they just wanted to make someone else hurt. But none of them were children of ‘time-out’ parents, they all practiced corporal punishment.

If their parents had been loving, involved parents, I don’t think any of them would have been bullies (I wasn’t their only target, by a long shot), no matter what discipline style their parents used.

I don’t think that’s true at all. I was bullied a lot in jr. High and high school, but years later ended up individually befriending several of the people who had been the cruelest to me. One even admitted that throughout jr. high he had gone to school every day with the intention of making me cry.

When they apologized to me (some literally crying), they all said the same thing- they were miserable at home. Their parents were frequently abusive, but neglectful at best, they hated themselves, and they just wanted to make someone else hurt. But none of them were children of ‘time-out’ parents, they all practiced corporal punishment.

If their parents had been loving, involved parents, I don’t think any of them would have been bullies (I wasn’t their only target, by a long shot), no matter what discipline style their parents used.

In the newscast it says the culprit lived at the house and it was HIS mother who was being charged…the woman who held the sleepover.

It better be the house owner mom who’s being charged and not the autistic boy’s mom – because that is some bullshit if I ever heard it

Criminally liable, I’m not sure. But they’re sure as fuck civilly liable, and I hope the mom of the victim sues the owner of the house her son was spending the night at for every penny she can get. 14 kids spending the night? An adult in that home couldn’t have administered sufficient supervision if they tried.

well watching the video, the boy says something like “but they could only find dr. pepper, to pour on me” … so that alone painted a vivid picture. they first threw water on the carpet and then attended to him (i mean just look at his face when he says that. absolutely heartbreaking).

unless he was exaggerating or lieing – but personally i don’t think he was. most kids throw in detail to embellish a dull story. and this story is horrendous enough in itself.

If the result is an autistic child getting torched? Again, not criminally negligent, perhaps, but civilly so.

I don’t know what California’s regulations are for child care workers goes, but I’d be surprised if there was no training required and no necessity for them to be in the same room (for at least most of the time). Something tells me that, if an adult were IN the room, this wouldn’t have happened.

So, I don’t believe daycare laws serve as much of a defense in this case.

But… that’s entirely beside the point, frankly. If I slip, fall on your stairs and break a bone, you’re liable, whether or not you were there to see it or assist me. If injury occurs in a household, the owner (or renter, depending) of that household is liable. I want to see someone other than the mother of the autistic child (what bullshit, unless prosecutors know something I don’t) held liable.

I see where you’re coming from – it’s quite unfair if the owner of the house was not the parent of the offending child. But, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. And, I don’t care… 14 tweens/teens in one house at one time is asking for trouble.

If I recall (and I could be wrong), the article didn’t state to what degree he assaulted the kids. For all we know he could’ve given them a well-deserved spanking. My point is that it didn’t seem like he beat the shit out of them, but these days you can be arrested for mere spanking discipline.

You’re right…. they didn’t say to what extent he assaulted the kids. But, I can only assume it was more than a spanking, given the fact that he also assaulted his wife. That shows a certain degree of uncontrolled anger. But, who knows, maybe she had it coming to. Obviously that’s the way he saw it, anyway.

“Her son’s friend seemed like a polite, well-behaved child when she met him.” I’m thinking Eddy Haskell.

I am not defending the kid or kids who did this, but I believe kids that age act and don’t think quite a lot. (I even remember a few instances of my own.) Seemed like impulse equaled action altogether too often. Thus, parents would get the infamous, “I don’t know,” answer from their kids when they asked why the kid did something so stupid, destructive, tragic . . .

I hate to think that these kids lured the new kid, an autistic kid, to the party with the express intention of bullying him somehow. But that might even be on the table.

It sounds like the kids were having a birthday sleep over. I typically allow my kids to have parties (not sleep overs) where the number of invitees equals the number of years being celebrated. I couldn’t stand that many kids for an entire night, though.

It makes sense if you think of it this way…

US supreme court has recently ruled that vaccine makers cannot be held accountable for harm their product caused, even if that harm was due to a known design defect. Autism is otherwise known as vaccine damage, in some circles. Circles which are expanding and growing ever larger in number.

I used to think that there weren’t a lot of americans aware of the recent Bruesewitz vs Wyeth ruling, but then I heard that the economy is seeing an uptick, ahahahah.

If you’re of the system that did this — if your living is intimately entangled with the system responsible — you’ll do anything to harrass and silence those who threaten you.

Damned scary shit happening in my country.

Funny how Socrates would have said the same thing about “kids today” 3000 years ago. Yes, some kids really are spoiled brats, just like some kids back in the day, but they are not the majority. Ditto for low-life dirtbags, like the ones who set the kid on fire. Such wastes of oxygen are aberrations, not the norm, and juvenile crime is now lower than it was in most of the 1970s.

For the data about all the debt that young adults (especially college students) are racking up, ever stop to think that is because the cost of college has dramatically outpaced inflation over the past few decades while real wages have stagnated or declined for those at the middle or bottom of the socioeconomic ladder?

As for texting while driving, a recent study finds that adults today are actually WORSE than teenagers when it comes to engaging in this stupid and reckless activity. And overall traffic fatalities (alcohol and non-alcohol) among teens are now at a record low despite the fact that there are more teens alive today than ever before and that nearly all of them own cell phones.

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Cell-Phone-Distractions.aspx?r=1
http://www.alcoholstats.com/mm/docs/8858.pdf

“And reading AND math scores are either stagnating or falling (and either way, they’re still *crap* in relation to kids’ scores in other countries). ”

While that is true, take a look at the NAEP scores 30 years ago. Not exactly something to brag about either. Funny how we have some of the highest scoring 4th graders in the world, but by 12th grade, they trail the pack. Our educational system is a joke compared other countries despite actually spending more per student. But take a look at another country who HAS found a (rather counterintuitive) way to make their own school system work wonders–and interestingly it’s not one of the ones you think.

http://www.proyouthpages.com/finnishschool.html
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120425355065601997-7Bp8YFw7Yy1n9bdKtVyP7KBAcJA_20080330.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

Hey, I can be a pasteboard pimp just like you.

Oh yeah, as for teen pregnancy, the links you posted were outdated, showing a brief and small increase in the teen pregnancy rate in 2006-2007 after plummeting dramatically from 1991 to 2005. Fortunately, the decline resumed, and the 2009 teen birth rate reached the lowest level on record since WWII. Sorry to burst your bubble.

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20110202/teen-birth-rate-is-declining

And yes, cannabis use among teens is modestly rising (though still lower than ten years ago and lower still than the all-time peak in 1979), but all other substances are now either fairly stable or still declining, and both alcohol and tobacco use are at a record low in 2009-2010. Overall, that’s good news. They’re using milder substances, and less overall drug use than a decade ago. despite facing a bleaker reality overall.

http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/pressreleases/10drugpr.pdf

Omg. Vaccines do not cause Autism. Any “circles” that believe that are populated by morons. If those circles are growing, it surely explains the increase in stupid people that I’ve noticed over the past decade. A lot of people don’t want to think that their child is the victim of their genes, or a randomly occurring disorder, because they want to have someone to blame for their misfortune.

The system didn’t do this. Some random sadistic little fucker did.

Also, your post has nothing to do with the actual subject.

Some people are so painfully stupid, I’m constantly amazed that they’ve managed to live long enough to spawn. You would have thought that they would have been imploded by the shear weight of their own stupidity well before that.

No the mother that the state was trying to charge was me.(James mom) they never did anything to the child or the parents who did this. After 8 months we finally got a court date but the other ppl moved out of state and they will not bring him back because he is a minor. Kinda fucked up huh

It was the parents child that actully lit my son on fire. within a week of this happing they moved out of state. I later found out that the reason they moved here is because they left another state due to there child being charged with hurting another child not to the extent my son was hurt but still hurting them

That’s some pretty diligent plotting for a kid.  And the bully was not supposed to be there according to the family (snor any others)?  Why did they lie to you about there being a party? It amazes me the lengths kids will go to in order to bully someone.  And for what?  A cruel laugh?  What has happened in regards these mean kids?  How is your son, James, holding up? And did the police charge you after all? Did it get to court, if so?