Yes, very, very sad
Fiona Adams, with her children Niamh and Cayden, who both died in the fire Photo: NEWSTEAM
Posted on 04/24/2010 6:55:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Children Killed In Suspected Arson Attack Hour After Call To Police Two young children [Pics in URL] were killed in a suspected arson attack on their Derbyshire home an hour after their mother called police for help.
Ben Leach and David Barrett
Fiona Adams reported noise and a disturbance in the back garden of her home late on Friday night and officers arrived to investigate. But they left the scene after failing to find any suspects. Shortly afterwards, the property was destroyed in a blaze of such ferocity that Miss Adams was forced to throw her eight-month-old son Kiernan from a first floor window into the arms of her brother-in-law, Blake Maynard.
The mother then leapt from the window, breaking her fall on a children's trampoline in the back garden. Her two other children, Niamh, five, and Cayden, two, were trapped upstairs and died in the blaze. Miss Adams, 23, and baby Kiernan were taken to hospital suffering from severe burns. The mother was believed to be sedated last night and had not been told of her children's deaths.
A 17-year-old youth was arrested early yesterday morning and was due to be questioned later. Neighbours in Buxton, Derbyshire, were left grief-stricken by the fire, which police and firefighters fear may have been lit deliberately. It emerged that Miss Adams posted a message on Facebook, the social networking internet site, shortly before the blaze which said there was a stranger in her back garden. Derbyshire Police were yesterday refusing to answer questions about their force's actions prior to the tragedy.
The children's father, James Maynard, 29, was too upset to speak to reporters last night and was believed to be at his infant son's bedside.
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Poor lady and kids.
Ah, come on. He was just a good bloke trying to stay warm. I am so disgusted with the British for allowing their country to be taken from them and to allow themselves to be make wards of the state.
Oh how horrible. The poor mom, when she finds out her kids are dead.. Oh no.
May The Lord give the family peace.
Horrible it is. The pics of the kids in the URL are heart-wrenching.
They were darling.
Horrible. What a beautiful little girl.
These are crimes beyond description, one can only cry and ask why.
That is not an uncommon picture for young families; the mom, the young daughter, and the newborn.
Yes, it’s devastating.
But they left the scene after failing to find any suspects. Shortly afterwards, the property was destroyed in a blaze of such ferocity that Miss Adams was forced to throw her eight-month-old son Kiernan from a first floor window into the arms of her brother-in-law, Blake Maynard.
The mother then leapt from the window, breaking her fall on a children's trampoline in the back garden.
Jumping out of a "first floor window" and had to break her fall on a trampoline? I can step out onto solid ground from any of my first floor windows.
Maybe Dad’s holding the camera.
At least he’s tending to the surviving baby.
By any chance did you watch the debate the other night on Fox???? It was on at 3 a.m. Eastern Time and It was worth losing sleep to watch, I was apalled at what passes for “conservative” on GBR, but more than that the guy that is likely going to win hate the USA and sounds scary as hell to me..... the things discussed in this debate was a window our own futures and every voter should have been required to watch it.
In most of Europe what we call the first floor, they think of as the ground floor and their first floor is our second floor etc. They say “story” as in one story above ground level.
In Europe, our first floor is called the ground floor and our second floor is the first floor, so she jumped out a second story window.
Such a sad story. I hope this family will be able to work through this in time.
I was looking through the old photo albums with my kids last week. I (dad) was in maybe one photo out of 20 (holding the camera for 15 of those). I made the comment “Boy - you guy’s sure had a lousy dad that was never around!”
I think it’s English usage. The English speak of ground floor, first floor, and up.
Their first floor is what Americans call the second floor.
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