I am amazed the kid found matches.
Because I would have to hunt all day around my home to find a lighter.
But then again I don’t smoke, light the fireplace or candles.
Can’t trust candles to be safe with 3 large Labradors and have been Lab owners for the past twenty.
We don’t even own a BBQ.
I can’t see the kid getting the book thrown at him because unlike an adult he is not mentally mature enough to have done this for the idea of burning homes down.
He will have a huge lesson to learn and bare some responsibilty but hopefully not by a bunch of zero tolerance homeland security nut cases.
Yes he will have a huge issue to deal with. And I agree that is too bad. While we all can certainly feel compassion for the kid and what he’s having to deal with, I cannot help but have more compassion for those who lost the home and belongings they have worked their life to accumulate. I would submit that the children of those families are going to quite a bit to deal with themselves.