A child is in critical condition after accidentally setting himself on fire while playing with a lighter and lighter fluid in Newton County, police said.
The 8-year-old boy, Sanquon King, suffered burns to over 38 percent of his body, and he remains in Grady Memorial Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Cellphone video of the incident was posted to social media, showing King frantically running around and screaming for help outside the Covington Housing Authority units on Friday afternoon.
In the video, a woman can be heard telling him to “lay down in the grass and roll.”
However, King’s mother, Willtrivius King, told Channel 2 that she’s furious people stood and watched instead of running to help her son.
“How can you do that — just to watch,” she said. “Like grown people standing watching and not trying to help. That’s cruelty to kids. You don’t do kids like that.”
Covington police told the news station that no one is expected to be charged in the incident.
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