A neighbor from Puente Alto denounced that a group of 10-year-old children burned down her house, who were identified as the minors who violated her son with bullying.
The mother of a 10-year-old boy who is a victim of bullying, reported that a group of minor perpetrators of bullying entered her house in High Bridge y they set it on fire with a spray can and a lighter.
As reported CHVValeria, the mother of the minor, indicated that the group of children entered her house days before the incident, so It would have been a premeditated act.
“It is true that the children did this, but I wonder what their parents are doing to not teach their children respect for the rest. How far can bullying go so that these children have so much grudge and rage against my son to burn down the house, “said Valeria.
The incident occurred on July 21 while the family was in the Valparaíso region for winter vacation. “A neighbor called me and told me, Valeria your house is on fire. It was horrible,” she stated.
According to volunteers from the Fire Department, the fire was intentional. “The fire started in my mother’s room, then mine, and then they attacked my son’s room. I have witnesses and audio where the parents recognize that their children got into my house (…) Do something with the children, take them to therapy, if at 10 years they burned down my house, at 15 or 20 years they are going to kill a person, “he revealed.
The bullying that Valeria’s son suffered was recurrent for years, where one of the children in particular was accused because “he broke his finger, threw dirt in his eyestold him that he was a fagot (sic), that he was not going to let him get together with anyone, ”said the victim’s mother.
Video clave
On the day of the fire, in addition to residents of the sector noticing that a group of children no older than 10 years were hanging around the condominium in a suspicious attitude, a video made it clear that the accused group was inside the house of the victim of bullying.
In the audiovisual archive, you can see a boy holding a spray can with a lighter, the one that makes big flames of fire inside one of the rooms in Valeria’s house.
Meanwhile, the Parents of the children accused of the fire do not deny the acts they carried out, and even offer help to Valeria and her family. However, so far there are no answers.
A lawyer, interviewed by the morning show of Contigo en la Mañana, indicated that currently the law does not penalize minors under 14 years of age, nor does it penalize their parents. Despite the above, through a civil lawsuit, the parents of the accused would be charged with paying compensation for all the damages caused to the affected family.
“My children are afraid, sad, angry, they feel guilty for having been friends with these kids. As bullying can be so much, I make a call to parents, worry about your children, that they do not pass in the street, treat them, take them to the psychiatrist, to the psychologist (…) Help yourselves as parents (…) They screwed up our livesValeria concluded.