Mother Leaves Child To Go Shopping-Child Dies in House Fire Video
MEMPHIS, TN - A three-year-old Memphis boy died in a house fire and his two-year-old brother is in critical condition at Le Bonheur. Both boys, say officials, were left home alone for hours on Monday, October 19th, 2009 while their mother, Melanie Dunn, ran errands and went shopping for clothes.
The fire started around 3 p.m. at 1242 Effie near Elliston in South Memphis. Investigators with the Memphis Fire Department says most of the fire damage is in the rear of the house where the bedrooms are located.
Neighbors like Posey Piggie watched in shock as firefighters carried the boys' tiny, lifeless bodies out of the house.
"One of the little babies," she says, "looked real, you know, real limp like."
While fire investigators tried to figure out what started the fire, the boys' aunt, Marilyn Watson, stunned reporters at the scene by admitting that she and Dunn left the boys at home by themselves, not once, but twice on Monday.
"We had left them this morning," says Watson, "and I had went to the food stamp office. We got back and everything was all right. I didn't know they was going to set the house on fire like that."
And instead of rushing to the hospital to be with the children, Watson's only interest was getting back inside her neice's house.
"I really need to get in there," she says, "to see if my purse burnt up, 'cause I had my food stamp card and everything in there."
Neighbors Orlandria Rosser and Jasmine Lott are unable to imagine leaving children that young home alone for any reason.
"No, never," says Lott. "Not two or three, especially. Not even seven."
"Maybe 13 or 14," says Rosser, "when they know what to do and what not to do. But not two or three."
As the heartbreak spread its' way down Effie Street, it soon gave way to anger that two grown women could be so careless with two precious little lives.
"You know this happened more than once," says neighbor Shun Evans. "It probably happened more than once and it finally caught up with them."
"Something should happen to them," says Rosser, "because there's no excuse. It's unacceptable."
"I just think justice needs to be done," another neighbor tells myEyewitnessNews.com, "because that was ridiculous."
Family members say Melanie Dunn was a single mother raising three boys. Investigators have not released the name of her three-year-old who died in the fire. The two-year-old is still hospitalized at Le Bonheur. And Dunn's five-year-old son was at school when the fire started.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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BlackComedyZone: Somebody should have knocked another tooth out of that aunt's mouth after that crazy comment!
diedrich901: im not 19 actually, i just picked 19 so i can watch 18+ vids on utube. im actually 12.
diedrich901: christianfags....
quotapieces: your too old to be so fuckin stupid, how the fuck are you gone call out all black women for the acts of one? and to say that "you don't see white women doing shit like this" again how fuckin stupid are you? I live in Oklahoma and I see white women on the news all the time out here for killing their babies by leaving them in the car in 100 degree weather. How is this any different? And this was not a black, white thing anyway, its a stupid person thing, you self hating coon!
tawabrachaa: you choke off a piano string and may someone in your family die of asthma nigga! FUCK YOU..;..if your stupid dumb pussy beggin ass could read i said the MAJORITY u captain...major and colonial save a ho! your emotional like a bitch dats why niggas like you gonna bleed like one in these last days...can't wait for the navy seals to release some form of a toxin on you simple ass niggers...and you don't see white women doing shit like this you fuckin sooner faggot! fuck you!
FaithandReasons: What a self-centered, irresponsible, demon-possessed welfare queen. She left those precious children at home by themselves while she ran off to the foodstamp office to get MY tax dollars, then she ran off to go shopping with her crack head aunt. The only thing that promiscuous leech was thinking about was HERSELF. & I bet she didn't buy a DARN thing for those children while she was out either! I heard she isn't going to spend time in prison for this....what kind of MESS is that??!!
hendev33: This is just sickening.
quotapieces: WOW LMAO!! now that was funny, now i know your a Clown. I dont give a fuck if you said Majority or not, Ya Fake ass TD Jakes!! DAMN LMAO, Prophesying and shit!
mytitans: SAVE THE FOODSTAMP CARD. OHNOES
kidparkerbanned: what is that dress that black guy has on, he doesnt looklike Miss Jay
Artkid100: All I got to say is y they put that stupid cracked out female on TV saying the most ridiculous shit!!!
kaleighfoley: What the hell are you a fucking idiot? What the fuck you dont do that! Really? What the fuck im not even allowed to stay home alone and im 12 so shut up! Simple dumbass so shut the fuck up why do you go shopping, when a presios little children are lighting matches in the house fuck you! I mean like really do you care?
RoyalMessup: so um...where are the fathers?
filly901: Fucking Memphis
XblisterXexistX: ohh wooooow she laughs after she says that,, what a fucking crackhead
sarahkimbrell: Just welfare checks to her not children.
MrProset: 1.43 was that a dude in black dres???
dArLeNewk: How sad and how can some one be so unfeeling all she was worried about was her purse and food stamps not even one word about the baby's life!!!! How could they leave baby's that young alone!!
bradlyo99: You're 12 years old and you talk like that? Your parents should be flogged for raising a kid as foul mouthed little punk kid like yourself. And why don't you listen a little better in English class? Your grammar is horrible.
kaleighfoley: Really is that so? This is an internet. No one cares if you curse! Your like so stupid! This is youtube no one cares if the grammar is wrong idiot!
theguyfromavonlake: 1:30 ... stupid fuckin waste of life fuckin cunt dumb toothless hillbilly piece a shit bitch
theguyfromavonlake: lol looks like it
theguyfromavonlake: dude the kids 12 lol
BlkSeaGoat: Is eveyone in Memphis fat or on crack?
ChathamFr0: 1:35 lmao.. wow... just WOW. Some people should just not have kids. Poor kids in this case, but wow fuck people are stupid as shit. Thank you /b/ for directing this to my attention.
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