Originally Posted by Surreal Farber

OK.. real life story.

Grandmother raising 3 grandchildren, one of whom is a 8-year old boy. As a bit of background, they are very poor, black, inner-city, and the parents are completely absent.

The boy has been setting fires. Most recently, a fire he set gutted one of the rooms in the house - at night while they were sleeping. The grandmother has tried pretty much everything she can think of and finally as a last resort, after the bedroom fire, deliberately burns the child's palms.

Opinion?