Kids Lock Disabled Teen In Burning Woodshed (They Danced While It Burned)

[matcom]

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WINNIPEG — It was early evening in the Gilbert Park public housing complex in Winnipeg's north end, and smoke from fires set by neighbourhood kids curled among the two-storey concrete townhouses. Brian McKay, a soft-spoken teen with wire-rimmed glasses and a pronounced limp, was drawn to the flames.

Within minutes, he had been shoved inside a burning wood shed by four girls and a boy, all younger than 12. They barred the door with a stick, and laughed and danced outside as the flames started to eat away the plywood structure. Brian was trapped inside.

Brian, 14, stands 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 95 pounds. He wears braces on his legs because he was born with spina bifida. Other children have always picked on him because of his size, he says.

He had moved to his grandmother's house in the housing complex only a week earlier, and was still getting to know the local kids. It was during the past weekend that he saw a group of young girls and a boy lighting cardboard and trying to shove it under the storage shed of the neighbourhood daycare, and wandered over to see what was going on.

“I saw somebody was lighting a fire under the shed, and then they pushed me in there,” he said, remembering the incident while sitting at his grandmother's kitchen table Monday.

He recalled trying to kick at the door, but his legs, withered by his condition, are barely two inches thick.

“It was too hard,” he said.

“I was banging on the door but the smoke kept coming on. I was scared and I panicked. I kept breathing faster and then I fell to the ground because I didn't know what to do. I couldn't breathe at all.”

Brian was still coughing Monday, and complained of shortness of breath. He said he was in the shed for five minutes while it burned. He called for help, “But no one was trying to help me.”

He could hear the children laughing and screaming. He still remembers their voices, he said.

He was saved by Joseph Bird, a 39-year-old father, whose kitchen overlooks the charred spot where the shed once stood.

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[blondeatlast]

1. "...all younger than TWELVE." That's the thing that stands out to me.

Imagine hearing the screaming and laughing while being trapped.

For that matter, imagine Gitmo.

[wildhorses]

2. did this sorta stuff always go on--but, now it seems to be

MORE because we have better communication methods OR is the world INDEED going to hell in a handbasket??



I am horrified:wtf:


those children need counseling on how to obtain some empathy:wtf:

[Chan790]

8. Both

This sort of thing has to some extent always happened and we're not going to hell in a handbasket. The frequency of these sorts of incidents throughout history rises as patriotism and religious fervor rise however.

Yes, it's actually Christian Conservatives faults. I can hear me being quoted in freeperville in 5...4...3...2...

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Well when the POTUS blows up frogs as a kid . . .

[BarenakedLady]

3. Horrible

I can't imagine. :-(

[Divameow77]

4. No criminal punishment will

be given to those kids either, that's disgraceful. I really hope their parents take this seriously and get their little "angels" some serious help.

[cwydro]

5. Horrendous

no doubt they started with animals and are moving up. Oh, I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this thread....

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. OMFG! Such cruelty at such a young age...

...That poor boy, and those awful kids. :grr: That does not bode well AT ALL for those idiot kids' futures. :cry: I simply cannot understand horrible things like that. :cry:

[Deja Q]

22. Malice and hatred. It's an easy enough concept to understand.

WIth luck, the boy will grow up and retain a sense of innocense and morality... it can be done. I shouls know...

[BreweryYardRat]

7. Changed my mind.

Edit: Rather than burning the perps at the stake, just tattoo "I tried to burn a crippled kid alive" on the little swines' foreheads in bright red ink.

If that poor kid's parents don't kill the brats responsible (and their grossly fucking incompetent parents), I'll be amazed.

[wildhorses]

9. and on their ass--we should tattoo:

and I danced while he burned:grr:


:thumbsup:

[ThomCat]

10. Where the hell were the partents!

These kids are all under 12. What the hell were they doing unsupervised?

[Katina]

12. this is what these kids live in

Police describe the run-down public housing complex as a high-crime area. Mr. Bird and others who live here say gangs of children roam the neighbourhood unsupervised in the evenings. The 12-year-olds encourage the younger ones to fight each other for entertainment, Mr. Bird said. Children as young as 7 or 8 can be seen smoking and drinking beer in the evening, he added. Arson is a regular occurrence.

The problem is that too many parents ignore their children, Mr. Bird said. Most families are on government assistance, and drug and alcohol abuse are rife.

Mr. Bird said he's disgusted that the children responsible for Brian's ordeal won't face judicial sanction. Since they are all younger than 12, they can't be charged with a crime under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Instead, they will be referred to programs to alter the behaviour of young people in trouble with the law.

the parents of these children should be charged with child neglect!

:mad:

[ThomCat]

14. I agree. The parents should be facing charges.

x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. Once I was 10, my parents pretty much let me go wherever I wanted.

However, I'm not a sick twisted fuck. Parental supervision doesn't help that much. These kids should be locked away.

[northzax]

11. paging Larry Coker

wonder if any of these kids can throw a good chop block?

[HEyHEY]

13. See! Winnipeggers are fucked!

[Evoman]

16. Winnepeg is the asshole of Canada.

I absolutely hate it there...granted my city isn't the best either, but every visit to winnipeg has left a bad taste in my mouth. It just seems so...I dunno...desperate there. Its a city with no point.

[TheMightyFavog]

20. City with no point.

I agree. Once the Jets left, everythig went downhill.

[hsher]

15. Tears

;(

[Kutjara]

18. Undisciplined, poorly socialized, unsupervised children...

...are incredibly dangerous. Guerilla movements in Africa, South America and Asia have know this for years. They put AK47s into the hands of 8 year-olds and know that these little killers will be a thousand times more ruthless than any adult. Children have no conscience and are even more prone to mob-thinking than adults (isn't that a scary thought?). They will goad eachother into escalating acts of violence that will grow in savagery until either someone is killed or they are stopped.

Feral children are bad news at any time.

[NMMNG]

19. I weep for the future

:cry:

[Deja Q]

21. Take those miscreant swine, lock them in a shed, and burn it.

Damn animals. Maybe if they had the same treatment applied to them, they wouldn't do such things in the future.

[evirus]

23. this is why i strongly advocate beating your assholetic kids

honestly what kind of child reareing brings about attempted murder based on physical disability?

[acmavm]

25. Amongst the dozen questions that I have one of them is

why would this woman get a call from the social service people telling her to quit talking about this? Don't they think that people should be warned about these little savages?

[FooFootheSnoo]

26. That is awful!!

I'm not a big physical punishment kind of parent, but if my kid did something like that she would not be able to sit down for a while after I got ahold of her. Of course, a little spanking isn't going to cure these children's problems. Poor little boy. I can't imagine how horrible that was for him.

[MissMillie]

27. I think that's about the worst story I've ever read

I just want to hold that young boy in my arms and promise him that nothing like that will ever happen to him again.

I'm sure his family is doing this, but *I* want to do it.