Hyderabad: 12-year-old boy immolates self after seeing cartoon character

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Hyderabad: 12-year-old boy immolates self after seeing cartoon character

In a tragic incident, a 12-year-old boy died in Venkatapuram in Hyderabad of Telangana while trying to imitate the actions of a cartoon character of a TV show.

The deceased has been identified as Jaideep Madugula a class 5 student. On Thursday morning, Jaideep saw a cartoon character on TV laughing while burning in flames.

Police said that the boy, who was inspired by the cartoon character, went to the terrace, doused himself in kerosene and set himself ablaze.

The incident came to light, when the grandparents heard Jaideep's cries. Locals later rushed the 12-year-old to the nearest hospital. Jaideep had suffered about 40 per cent burn injuries and later succumbed to it.

He was living with his grandfather in Venkatapuram of Balapur village, while his parents live in Jiyaguda of Hyderabad. Based on the complaint filed by the father Mahipal, police has registered a case of suspicious death and handed over the body to his parents after post-mortem.

Meanwhile Balala Hakkula Sangham, a child right organisation demanded strict action and said that channels producing the shows without any social responsibility more particularly in case of children should be held responsible and the producers should be punished.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...-cartoon-character-venkatapuram/1/969784.html

 

[Jugger]

Sad incident.
I Feel sorry for the parents.

 

[CBU-105]

what a retard.

 

[Trango Towers]

what a retard.

grow up he was a child.

 

[Spring Onion]

tv broadcasts indeed have adverse effects in many cases.
RIP a cute kid.

 

[CBU-105]

grow up he was a child.

were you as dumb when you were 12 ?

 

[Trango Towers]

were you as dumb when you were 12 ?

clearly the person who gave you birth was.....watch you mouth.

this boy could have had mental issue or not been developed mentally....just like you.
still he is a boy and you are too dumb to understand that even at your age.
best you not address me again else you will cry to the mods

 

[That Guy]

were you as dumb when you were 12 ?

The child is dead, have a bit of heart.

The fault lies with the parents, they should have kept an eye on him and what he watches.

Remember, kids are kids, they're allowed to be dumb.

 

[fitpOsitive]

Parental guide is a must.

 

[Skull and Bones]

I remember back in the 90s, many kids jumped from terraces in the hope of Shaktiman will save them.

 

[Jacob Martin]

were you as dumb when you were 12 ?

We can all have arrested development issues. In some of us it manifests as lack of reason, in others as lack of critical thought. There are also situations such as yours, where a person may grow up with basic lack of sensitivity and mistake it for straightforwardness.

So one should be patient in these situations.

 

[scorpionx]

Poor soul. I see my nephew; when he watches cartoon his eyes become still, mouth half opened. You push him, pull his ears he simply don't give you a fcuk. And if you switch off the TV, hunger strike is on the way.

Parenting these days does have some deficiencies. Today's mother's lack the patience, affection, perseverance of yesterday's mothers. Fathers are more busy in mobile, mom busy in facebook recipes and children are devouring animated movies. At the end of the day, common sense is what we are failing to teach our kids.

 

[MagicMarker]

We can all have arrested development issues. In some of us it manifests as lack of reason, in others as lack of critical thought. There are also situations such as yours, where a person may grow up with basic lack of sensitivity and mistake it for straightforwardness.

So one should be patient in these situations.

Sadly a lack of empathy or sympathy not a development issue, its a symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Its a fine line between that to becoming a sociopath or a psychopath.

They already demonstrate much of the same characteristics like shifting blame, refusal to accept responsibility and poor behavior.

Under such circumstances, even infinite patience will not help since the person is incapable of seeing his own limitations.

Poor soul. I see my nephew; when he watches cartoon his eyes become still, mouth half opened. You push him, pull his ears he simply don't give you a fcuk. And if you switch off the TV, hunger strike is on the way.

Parenting these days does have some deficiencies. Today's mother's lack the patience, affection, perseverance of yesterday's mothers. Fathers are more busy in mobile, mom busy in facebook recipes and children are devouring animated movies. At the end of the day, common sense is what we are failing to teach our kids.

Which is why I have banned TV from my house.

Step two is to keep them busy all the time so that they don't miss TV.

 

[rott]

I remember back in the 90s, many kids jumped from terraces in the hope of Shaktiman will save them.

When my daughter was 5, she claimed she had "night vision". Now she's 7 and she laughs at herself when I remind her of her night vision days.

 

[third eye]

Meanwhile Balala Hakkula Sangham, a child right organisation demanded strict action and said that channels producing the shows without any social responsibility more particularly in case of children should be held responsible and the producers should be punished.

Silly. Why blame others for the stupidity of parents.

Years ago when Spider man was very popular on TV , a friends son broke his collar bone when he tied a sheet on himself like the Cape Spider man wore & jumped off a sideboard at home.

The parents were to blame.