Posted on 12/30/2009 8:18:04 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
An 11-year-old Florida girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend are accused of plotting to kill the girl's mother by setting her bedroom on fire while the woman slept, Florida authorities said Wednesday.
Samantha Broadhead and Jack Ault have been charged with attempted murder and arson after the fire Tuesday in Clearwater — about 20 miles west of Tampa on Florida's Gulf Coast — MyFoxTampa.com reported.
Clearwater Police Department detectives say the young couple poured gasoline on Nancy Broadhead's bedroom floor and bed, and then set the room aflame. Police say the pair escaped in the mother's 2007 Ford Focus.
It was unclear if either suspect had an attorney. There was no answer at a listing for an Ault in Clearwater.
The girl's mother was awakened by a smoke alarm and managed to escape. Authorities say Nancy Broadhead, 47, sustained serious burns and smoke inhalation. Her injuries were not considered life threatening.
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Unbelievable. Can we say these kids are out of control? These kids need something besides an attorney, but political correctness forbids me from saying what that is.
Unbelievable. Can we say these kids are out of control? These kids need something besides an attorney, but political correctness forbids me from saying what that is.
My teenage angst led me to steal my mom’s cigarettes and drink beer in my neighbor’s barn.
I am very happy that they are charging this 11 years old with attempted murder.
She deserves to spend he life behind bars- she is a clear danger to society.
There is a problem when an 11 year old is dating a 15 year old. Her mother should not have allowed this.
But Mom doesn't deserve that kind of punishment for failing as a parent.
That could possibly be the motive.
Probably her mother was NOT allowing it, and that is why they decided to set fire to her.
Where is daddy?
You may just be right about that. I pray that the mother recovers and that the little girl sees the error of her ways.
There’s something wrong with a 15 year old who has an interest in an 11 year old to begin with.
I don't know about you, but I would NEVER allow my son or daughter to set me on fire. Not even ONCE!
Why does an eleven year old girl have a “boyfriend”?
What? Didn’t she get the I-phone she wanted for Christmas?
“Mom, how COULD you?? ALL my friends have them! I’m so humiliated! Just for that, you BURN!!!”
I didn’t raise my kids to take drugs, run away, hop trains, skip school, steal, beg on the side of the road or get pregnant out of wedlock. But one of them did all of that and God only knows what else.
I trained them to work hard, go to church, respect other peoples property, vote ETC. ETC. One of them did that.
“My daughter set my bed on fire once....ONCE!” /Danny Vermin
Anybody who’d set fire to Mom is dangerous, and needs to be kept off the streets for a good long time.
Remember please that some parents’ children were forced by the government to sit next to this 11 year girl and 15 year old boy in their government schools. I suppose this is the wonderful “socialization” homeschoolers are missing.
Just another example of how government schools trash our First Amendment Right to free assembly and association.
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