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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Or is it un-PC of me to notice things like that?
This is what happens in a world that makes excuses and fails to penalize criminals. Even in schools, teachers hand are tied as far as discipline is concerned. I have a relative teaching in a Florida school and according to her, they may no longer send a child to the principals office because it is traumatic for them. She must try to teach in spite of disruptive children. Those disruptive children have NO reprocussions to their behavior. When she contacts the parents, some are concerned, but there are others who blame HER for not being able to control their children. How can we expect children to understand that they are responsible for their actions, when we show them that they are not
Where is daddy?
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BINGO!
Be that as it may, the majority of troubled kids come from less than wonderful homes. I merely observe that some folks simply do not know how to be a parent, and there is substantial damage that results from that.
I have a cousin in those shoes. Three boys.
Youngest: utterly normal, smartish, not a genius, but a good kid, finishing school.
The oldest: F-16 pilot, straight A’s, trains AF pilots.
The middle one: Was far beyond the others during school in terms of grades, talking genius-prodigy level. Now: 2 illegitimate kids, quad-relapse heroin habit, fortunately no crime other than the drug part.
Can’t predict.
In a sense the parents are right but placing the blame on the wrong person ( the teacher). If the system were functioning correctly there would be consequences for disrupting a class. The disruptive children would be removed from the normal classroom and placed in a more rigidly structured ( prison-like) environment.
a good ass whoopin on a daily basis out behind the woodshed like the good old days maybe...??..
An eleven year old girl has no business having a boyfriend.
There’s your first problem right there.
The kid is 11. You tell HER what to do, not the other way around. And you tell the 15 year old to get the hell away from your daughter ... or else.
Parenting = to each his own, but you reap what you sow.
>>Girl, 11, and Boyfriend ...
There is your problem right there. <<
Beat me to it.
I have a 12 year old who is not mature enough to date. None are.
The mother didn’t deserve this but sometimes we reap what we sow. And did I miss the Dad in the story?
My teenage angst led me to steal my neighbor’s cigarettes and drink my mom’s beer in my our barn.
My teenage angst led me to steal my neighbor’s cigarettes and drink my mom’s beer in my our barn.
Wow, post right under yours.
Great minds think alike.
In every case, ( without a single exception), the parents said the problems started in government middle school with the friends that the child had met in school. In a very few cases the friends were not only schoolmates but also members of the same congregation.
I have never had a family in the office with a homeschooler that has made poor choices, if the child was homeschooled from the beginning. I have had parents in the office who have had children with behavior problems who have attempted homeschooling in the middle and high school years, and this did not work out well.
Anyway....I don't think we can always blame the parents. If this was the case, then why aren't all the kids delinquent? I have known far, far, far too many families where all but one of the children are doing wonderfully well and one is a mess. It's can't be the parents. Personally, I blame the social environment of the government schools.
In a normal, correct parenting relationship that is supported by society, absolutely.
However, there are forces in this country that want children to have the same "rights" as adults, no matter how young. The rights of self-determination, ability to enter independently into contracts and so on.
And a lot of those same kind of people are highly placed in this current administration.
Where are the men in the family? Hm? It is the men in this family who should be having the quiet, deliberate, and no nonsense talk with this kid.
What is a single mom going to do that will make a difference with this boy?
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