Teen 'burned alive by mother's jealous boyfriend' tells of horror after set alight in his sleep

DailyMail.U.K. ^ | 24th July 2011 | John Stevens

[SanFranDan]

FULL TITLE: 'How could he do this to me?' Teen 'burned alive by mother's jealous boyfriend' tells of horror after he was set alight in his sleep

A teenager has spoken of his horror after he said he was doused in petrol and burned alive by his mother's boyfriend while he was sleeping.

Antoine Willis, 19, said that his mother's boyfriend, Curtis Reed, attacked him after he stepped in when the 54-year-old threw a frozen chicken at his mother and threatened her with a knife at their home in St Pauls, Minnesota.

In his first interview, Mr Willis, who is covered in bandages to protect his second and third degree burns, tried to hold back tears as he told how he believes his mother's boyfriend of eight years wanted to kill him.

[anniegetyourgun]

Domestic violence among the co-habitating...again.

[yldstrk]

Moms, be more careful with your selection of “boyfriends”....

[Tax-chick]

I don't think "jealous" is the best adjective. The boy was attacked because he attempted to defend his mother from her abusive sex partner.

[Venturer]

I feel sorrow for the son I have no sympathy for the mother.

She chose——badly.

Is her last name Dunham?

Anybody want to bet she will be back with him inside a week?

[GnuHere]

Never turn your back on Mama’s BF, and sleep with one eye open.
This is a bit unusual in that they had been shacked up so long...

[Lazamataz]

This is England, where the guily are coddled and the victims are punished.

[yldstrk]

Reported by UK paper, happened in St. Paul MN

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

No, but the boy’s name is “Antoine”...now guess I am a racist for pointing that out.
Mother should be charged with child endangerment or co conspirator to the attempted murder by tolerating this situation!

[mrs. a]

“...threw a frozen chicken at his mother...”

Why is there almost always something comically bizzare in these sad cases?

[Lazamataz]

Okay, then this is St. Paul MN, where the guily are coddled and the victims are punished.

[Tax-chick]

Then there was the poor young man, observing, “I’d never been burned alive before ...,” as if he knows people that it’s happened to more than once.

[Steely Tom]

Okay, then this is St. Paul MN, where the guily are coddled and the victims are punished.

Touché!

[yldstrk]

Hubert Horatio Humphrey socialist territory

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Mom appears to be a selfish bi*** who put her own weak needs before the safety and well-being of her child - and I don't care that he was 19 at the time. The minute her son stepped in to protect her from this worthless POS waste of oxygen she should have called the police and kicked this so-called ‘boyfriend’ out of the house.

[Ditter]

Is the Daily Mail UK published in England? Why do they get all our dirty linen, trying to make themselves look better?

[yldstrk]

Agreed.

[yldstrk]

Our “news media” only publishes the “debt ceiling” fairy tale.....

[reaganaut]

“I’d never been burned alive before ...,” as if he knows people that it’s happened to more than once.

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I read that and thought the same thing. That and “Well, its not on MY bucket list...”

[Tax-chick]

“Well, it's not on MY bucket list ...”

LOL!