Posted on 06/21/2022 12:43:59 PM PDT by Morgana
Newly released video appears to disprove a Connecticut mother's claims that her son was targeted by bullies when he was hit in the face with a burning ball, instead showing a seeming accident as kids play dangerously with fire.
Backyard surveillance footage shows the events of April 24, when six-year-old Dominick Justino Krankall suffered second and third-degree burns while playing with other kids in Bridgeport.
The video was released after police concluded there was no wrongdoing in the case, and shows a group of boys, including Dominick, dousing a soccer ball with gasoline, setting it ablaze, and then kicking it around the yard.
'They were interacting in the backyard being boys,' said Laura Giacobbe, who released the video after her son was accused of bullying Dominick, in an interview with WFSB-TV.
Dominick's mother Maria Rua had previously claimed in media interviews that her son was intentionally set on fire by neighborhood bullies, telling DailyMail.com last month that he ran home screaming 'Mommy, they lit me on fire.'
The mother and other family members claimed that the other boys had lit a gasoline-soaked ball on fire and thrown it in Dominick's face -- a scene the newly released video does not depict.
Rua also claimed that her son had been terrorized by their eight-year-old neighbor and his 11-year-old brother for more than a year, without naming the children.
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Darwin candidate?
Yep...and another perpetual victim trying to cash in through our idiotic “legal system.”
Both child and mother are lying losers.
Sigh. Boys with fire. It is always boys with fire. It has such a draw for us.
Yea this story went up in flames
My favorite childhood toys were firecrackers, BB guns and matches, in any combination thereof.
Hopefully, Rua rues the day she accused these kids of bullying. The other kId’s parents should ruin Rua...or run her outta town on a rough rigid rail right away.
Three boys dousing a soccer ball with gasoline and then lighting it on fire to kick around - is that such a boy thing to do or what?
We used to pour gasoline in toy race cars, then push them past a patch of burning gasoline on the driveway. Great fun!
Of course. Of course. Fire. Loud noise. Disintegrating things. Things that can be made into missiles which can be aimed.
Loud noises.
One time my mom brought us home from the swim club and within two minutes my little brother had the bushes in front of the house in flames and the fire department on the way.
He convinced everybody it was spontaneous combustion.
My little brother was gooood.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
And blowing stuff up! I’m 73 and I still love it.
We used tennis balls.
My buddy scrapped his legs up pretty bad after a flaming tennis ball went under a car. The rest of us ran away, and he went sliding under the car to kick it away.
Another kid thought it would be great fun to use a tennis racket to hit the flaming ball around. It was his mom’s favorite racket and of course he ruined the strings. The mom destroyed the racket while beating him with it.
Good times.
My favorite childhood toys were firecrackers, BB guns and matches, in any combination thereof.
Yup...
We also discovered the amazingness of dissolving Styrofoam in gasoline. It made a nice sticky, flammable ‘paste’. We’d twirl the end of a stick in it and you’d have quite a nice torch.
We’d also use it the paint the wood crosses we’d stand up in black neighborhoods. Light that up and it’s a great party! /sarc
Boys with fire
In adulthood it becomes an outdoor kitchen with a firepit if one is not careful.
This - having the kid do something really stupid, get badly hurt, and then be coached into a lie by its slattern of a mom - just screams “Scientology.”
I knew a guy whose parents encouraged and incentivized him to - for example - run out behind cars backing out of mall parking lot spaces. (He was like, “Ok, Mom and Dad! Whatever you say!”)
One day their efforts and the kid’s stupidity paid off when the kid got in front of a shopping cart being pushed by another kid. KA-CHING, BABY. Payday.
This guy - he was a member of a local band I was friends with a long time ago - said, when I asked him, “Oh h3ll yes it hurt!” He had a broken bone and was in the hospital for a couple of days.
His parents made out like bandits from suing the store and insurance claims, etc. He said his pain was rewarded because he got a new bike, new skateboard, and all that stuff.
Also: I’m always glad I don’t have any kids when I read stuff like this. #thankyouJesus
Jesus: *doesn’t look up from iPhone screen* Please don’t involve me in this.
I’m the reason we can’t have nice things.
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