Teens arrested for vandalizing early Christmas display for boy with cancer
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teens-arrested-wrecking-early-christmas-display-boy-terminal-cancer-n911796
CINCINNATI — Police say two teens accused of slashing Christmas decorations set up in an Ohio neighborhood to help a child diagnosed with terminal cancer celebrate the holiday
early have been arrested.
Police in the Cincinnati suburb of Colerain Township said Thursday the juveniles were caught after a neighbor saw them slashing a decoration late Wednesday. Police didn't release
any information about charges.
The decorations are up for 2-year-old Brody Allen, whose family says this could be his last Christmas celebration. Some inflatable yard decorations, including a Santa, were slashed the
past few days.
Todd Allen, Brody's father, had told WCPO-TV the destruction was disheartening, but if vandals deflate Santa, they were "going to put him right back up."
A community organization plans a Christmas parade Sunday with Brody as grand marshal.
At least Brody is too young to understand what happened. They'll put up new decorations, have their parade, and the kid won't know the difference.
The added stress is the last thing these parents need, though. They'd like to remember their child's "last christmas" without this event marring it.
I'd feel like an absolute failure of a parent if my kid was part of this shit.
These teenagers are gonna be cringing themselves half to death every night for the rest of their lives over this.
Wait...why? Are you saying these guys are failures of parents in some sense because.. why?
No I'm saying that if I had kids and they did something like this I'd feel like a piece of shit. Literally what's on the tin. I'd try and get my kids prosecuted for their crimes and I'd probably testify against them too. If my parenting wasn't enough to teach them to not be shitty people maybe they need a tough dose of real life consequences.
I am stupid and thought you were talking about the terminal kid, very stupid.
Cliche as it is, I have a feeling that it was supposed to be "just a prank". Aka the new "I'm sorry and didn't mean it, can I go now?".
It's possible that they had no clue what the decorations were for and were just being dumb teenagers.
Doesn't mean they shouldn't reap the consequences
Though it does mean people shouldn't assume they're monsters targetting terminally ill children
This is what I suspect.
They just saw someone putting out Christmas decorations in September, thought "haha wow what dorks put Christmas stuff out in September let's fuck with their shit," and that was the end of it.
Still an absolutely shitty thing to do, and they should be rightly punished for it.
But I don't think they purposely thought "haha wow what dorks put Christmas stuff out for their kid with cancer who might not live till December let's fuck with their shit."
Ignorance isn't an excuse.
And no one said it is.
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