A young boy in Texas is in an induced coma after being set on fire by friends. Kayden Culp, a 10-year old child with special needs was lured to a shack in the town of Kerrville by a friend and doused with gasoline by another boy. A third boy reportedly lit a match and threw that onto him.
Authorities believe that the incident was premeditated and possibly instigated by one of the boys who was known to be a problem. Police arrested the three boys, all ranging in age from 9-11. One of the boys has been charged with first-degree arson. All of their names have been withheld due to their young age.
The special needs youngster is having biopsies performed on him in order to see just how many skin grafts he will require. He sustained first- and second- degree burns over almost a quarter of his entire body.
Kayden’s aunt, Tanya Kasper, told FoxNews.com that other children who heard about the horrific attack said that the juveniles did it on purpose. “One has always had issues being destructive and disruptive,” said the saddened aunt, who added that that boy’s mom even admitted to not being able to handle her troublesome son.
As for Kayden, he had always had it tough. Plagued by developmental issues, kids tended to pick on him. His parents were hesitant to let him go out and play without them. He wasn’t able to tell which kids were being genuinely nice to him and which were not. Adding to his developmental issues, Kayden was hyperactive and naively happy—something that bad kids would home in on.
Not an isolated case.
Incidents like this happen all over the world—believe it or not. They just don’t all get reported. This story illustrates the evil that lurks in the hearts of all humans.
Most of us would never do something like this. Many wonder how it could happen? If you are reading this and are completely horrified, then you are not alone. And you are probably asking the same questions that I was asking.
The first question we ask is “Why?” That answer isn’t always easily had. The second question we ask is “Where are the parents?” For those of us with kids, the answer to the second question is more easily answered. We know how busy life is. We know that we can’t always be there with our kids—nor if we should be there. Most kids are good. Children have to grow up. That’s difficult for them to do when we are always around. Always watching them. Accompanying them everywhere they go. But that being said, every parents’ situation is different. The problem child should probably have had constant supervision. Kayden should have been able to go about his day once in a blue moon without his parents tailing him. But sadly, that’s not how this situation went down.
How do you protect your kids today?
So what can you do to make sure your child is safe? The truth is that there is no way that you can protect your children 100% of the time from all the dangers of the world. Accidents happen. Crime happens. Life happens. You can be the best parent or hire the best nanny or put your kids in the best schools and still, anything can happen. You can, however, add some extra protection by installing a cell phone monitoring app on all of your kids’ iPhones, iPads, and Android phones.
While there’s no information on if Kayden or any of the other boys had cell phones with them, iPhone monitoring apps could have helped by alerting parents to signs of trouble. If the bad kids had planned to do something and texted each other or said something on social media or researched setting someone on fire, a parent could’ve seen it on their kid’s phone and put a stop to it. If Kayden’s parents had seen signs of trouble brewing, they could have prevented him from going out that day without them.
While there’s no guarantee that the outcome would have been different had any or all of the parents put a mobile monitoring app on their kids’ devices, it certainly couldn’t have hurt.
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