How does it make you feel that a 10 year old boy set a fire that destroyed 21 homes spread out through 60 square miles?
It makes me angry. I can imagine that those 21 people who lost their homes set by a boy are pretty angry too.
However, fire charges will be considered by prosectors. They haven't made a decision on whether or not they will charge the boy.
"It was a child-set fire, but it is not clear what his intentions were at this time," said Bill McSweeney, chief of the Los Angeles County sheriff's homeland security department.
It was clear to me what his intentions were and the boy should be punished to the fulliest extent of the law, no matter his age. I'm so over the law when it has 2 seperate punishments for children and adults. If you commit the crime, you have to do the time. Any child knows full well what they are doing when it's bad they must have consequences just as an adult would.
People please lets make this boy an example, please punish him as if he were an adult.
According to an article from Yahoo.com, some legal experts say serious criminal charges are unlikely. To win an arson conviction, prosecutors would have to prove the boy intended to cause harm, which would be difficult given that they seem to have accepted his explanation that the fire was an accident, said Cyn Yamashiro, who directs Loyola Law School's Center for Juvenile Law and Policy.
In a news conference Wednesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he did not think the child meant any harm.
I wonder why Schwarzenegger felt the need to say this, because he has no place speaking for a 10 year old, especially when it comes to the boys intentions. Schwarzenegger didn't do any reseach for all he knows the boy could have lost a bet with friends and next thing you know he starts a fire.
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