Article: Qld: Mother fears for family after son set alight


AAP General News (Australia)
02-04-2004
Qld: Mother fears for family after son set alight

By John Sheed and Janelle Miles

BRISBANE, Feb 4 AAP - The mother of a 12-year-old boy set alight by an attacker after
refusing to hand over his wallet is too scared to let any of her other children out of
the house.

The boy, who police asked not be identified, was walking to shops at Bundamba west
of Brisbane after school yesterday when he was approached by a youth.

When he refused to hand over his wallet, containing $5, he was kicked to the ground,
squirted with an inflammable liquid from a blue sports bottle and set alight, police said.

He was treated at the Royal Children's Hospital in ...

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