Articles labeled: arson

Okay, how in the world can you hold an 8 year old accountable for doing something that she cannot fully comprehend? They should arrest her parents for their lack of supervision. How does an 8 year old have that much autonomy anway?

I think all involved, the parents and the police qualify for the “dumbass awards”.

Police say an 8-year-old girl who lived at 319 Central Avenue in Norwich deliberately set the fire on April 30th.

She’s charged with third degree larceny, but neighbors say she’s not the one to blame.
“I think the parents should be responsible for it’s a child. Where did she get the lighter, things like that. The parents’s fault,” said Susan Bogan of Norwich.

It’s not the terrorists we have to worry about, it’s little boys playing with matches. First one boy starts a massive California wildfire, now another in Lawrenceburg, Ohio, took out half a block playing with a lighter, paper, and styrofoam, causing a half million dollars in damage.

At least eight people are homeless and one woman suffered a heart attack. She is in the hospital.

At an afternoon news conference, officials said the child did not mean to cause any damage. The boy is charged with a delinquent act of arson and is due in court Tuesday. If convicted he could be sentenced to juvenile detention until age 21.

Authorities believe they may have enough evidence to charge a mother who’s 4 children were trapped inside a house where a fire started inside the house. The mother was the only one that got away without injury. Her 1 year old died.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 1-year-old girl was killed in an explosion and fire Monday night in Colorado Springs and authorities said they have enough evidence to charge the child’s mother with the death.

Police received a 911 call reporting a possible explosion in the 3200 block of Galena Court at 10:01 p.m. and the first officers to arrive pulled four children from the house: a 3-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, an 8-year-old boy and a 9-year-old boy.

The 3-year-old girl and 8-year-old boy were transported by ambulance to The Children’s Hospital in Aurora because weather conditions prevented a medical helicopter transfer.

The 8-year-old and 9-year-old boys were reported to be in critical condition. The 5-year-old boy was in guarded condition, according to a press release.

While arson was always suspect in the current ravishing Southern California fires, it now seems that it wasn’t the act of some psycho with malicious intent, but instead it was a young boy playing with matches (and who has obviously never heard of Woodsy the Owl):

The boy, whose name and age were not released, confessed to starting the Buckweed fire, north of Los Angeles, on October 21 but claimed it was an accident.

Diane Hecht, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, said: “He admitted to playing with matches and accidentally starting the fire.”

The boy was released to his parents, and the case will be be presented to the district attorney’s office. He is believed to be under the age of 13, according to Reuters.

He is SOOOOOO grounded.

What a horrible waste. Is a 10 year old boy even capable of understanding the enormity of the situation? Why would he do such a thing? How could nobody see thing coming? Should a 10 year old boy be locked away fro 10+ years for something he might not have fully understood?

Timothy Douglas Byers was arrested Friday “primarily for his own safety,” said Darke County Prosecutor Richard Howell. He said Byers is the youngest Darke County child in recent memory to be locked up for a crime.

“This is the most tragic and certainly horrifying (case) that I or any one else can remember,” Howell said.

The boy didn’t intend to kill, the prosecutor said, but he was charged with the murder counts because the deaths occurred during the commission of another crime, the aggravated arson. If he is convicted, incarceration “could conceivably extend beyond his 21st birthday,” Howell said.