Three-year-old Ladareon Dunn’s funeral
By Nicholas Stix
Some genius posted the video above to Facebook, but couldn’t be bothered to copy and paste any of the relevant information, like when it happened, or simply the original link, leading me and other people seeing it to think it just happened.
Anyway, I just spent over an hour researching this case, and it only gets worse.
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Screams filled the evening sky as family members try to cope with what happened Monday in a South Memphis community. Two children, 2-year old Catareon Dunn and 3-year old Ladareon Dunn, were left home alone shortly before a fire broke out.
Officials responded to a house fire call at 1236 Effie Road off Mt. Moriah.
The two boys were left unattended while their mother and aunt left the house to go drop off a friend. Sometime after that, 911 received a call from neighbors saying the house was on fire.
Neighbors say they heard screams coming from the house and rushed to the back door to try and rescue the children. However, when they got there, the flames and smoke were too powerful for them to enter.
When the children were finally pulled from the house, onlookers described them as looking like "rag dolls." Both were rushed to the Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in critical condition. Ladareon died shortly thereafter. Catareon remains in critical condition.
The children [sic] aunt, Marilyn Wilson, who left the house with the mother, said she had no regrets about leaving the children home alone, No, I really don't because if they had been there by themselves, I don't know if the boys set the house on fire or somebody threw something in there to set it on fire. I really need to get in there to see if my purse burned up. I had my Food Stamp Card and everything in there.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Memphis Fire Department.
UPDATE: Two-year old Catareon [sic] Dunn Dies at LeBonheur Children's Hospital. [It was actually the three-year-old Ladareon Dunn, who died at the time.]
No charges have been filed against the mother and aunt of the children; however, the Memphis Police Department is still investigating the case.
The mother and fambly being indigent, it will be necessary for a funeral home to donate the caskets, a cemetery to donate the grave plots, and everyone is expected to "chip in" so that the children can be buried in new clothes.
ReplyDeleteWhen you say it will be necessary, do you mean that is common practice or that the community should come together? I know this was 10 years ago, but I'm trying to follow up and nothing was said about charges being pressed against the aunt who also left the kids alone and it seemed to be her house. Then another article insinuated that the sanity of the mother might be brought into question at trial. But even if found insane, that should make that aunt all the more liable. And in my area, when things like this happen, nobody is obligated to provide anything, but ppl are usually taken care of by the community
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