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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 07:47 PM Oct 2016

Special-needs boy set on fire by bullies he thought were friends

A 10-year-old special-needs boy was on life support after bullies allegedly lured him to a field, doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire on Sunday.

Kayden Culp of Kerrville, Texas, has burns over 20 percent of his body from his ears to his belly button, and his organs are failing, according to a YouCaring page set up by the boy’s family to cover his health care expenses.

As of Thursday afternoon, Kayden’s family had raised over six times their $10,000 goal.

One unidentified child has been charged with arson following the incident and is “responsible for causing the victim’s severe burns,” according to a statement from the local fire marshal.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/10/06/special-needs-boy-set-on-fire-by-bullies-he-thought-were-friends/

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Special-needs boy set on fire by bullies he thought were friends (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
Pure evil! get the red out Oct 2016 #1
it's the parents not the kids, the kids learn it from the the home juxtaposed Oct 2016 #2
WtH is going on Kerrville lately? TXCritter Oct 2016 #3

get the red out

(14,070 posts)
1. Pure evil!
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 07:58 PM
Oct 2016

Those little fiends are like mad dogs that society will have to just put up with until they do something horrific as adults. Their parents should AT LEAST have to pay the hospital bills of the innocent child they tortured, possibly to death. But no one will suffer but the victim and his family.

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