Girl reportedly set blaze over chores
A 12-year-old girl tired of doing chores set fire to her sleeping mother’s bed and took off in the family car to fake the abduction of herself and her two younger siblings, authorities in the city of Peru said.
“Apparently the mom had given her a lot of duties,” Miami County Sheriff Ken Roland said. “It was too much for a 12-year-old, and she snapped.”
The girl was stopped and arrested a short distance away and was being held in a juvenile detention center on charges of arson and attempted murder, police said. The other two children were released to their mother, who was not hurt in the fire.
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