Florida Girl, 11, and Boyfriend Set Mom on Fire, Cops Say

[WriteDown]

Source: Fox News

An 11-year-old Florida girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend are accused of plotting to kill the girl's mother by setting her bedroom on fire while the woman slept, Florida authorities said Wednesday.

Samantha Broadhead and Jack Ault have been charged with attempted murder and arson after the fire Tuesday in Clearwater — about 20 miles west of Tampa on Florida's Gulf Coast — MyFoxTampa.com reported.

Clearwater Police Department detectives say the young couple poured gasoline on Nancy Broadhead's bedroom floor and bed, and then set the room aflame. Police say the pair escaped in the mother's 2007 Ford Focus.

It was unclear if either suspect had an attorney. There was no answer at a listing for an Ault in Clearwater.

The girl's mother was awakened by a smoke alarm and managed to escape. Authorities say Nancy Broadhead, 47, sustained serious burns and smoke inhalation. Her injuries were not considered life threatening.

Samantha Broadhead later returned to the scene and agreed to go to police headquarters for questioning. Jack Ault was located at a friend's house and taken into custody.

Police spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts said a motive was "probably just typical teenage angst."....

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Any guys ever have an 11 year old girlfriend when you were 15? Any girls ever have a 15 year old boyfriend when they were 11?

More at this link:

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/pinellas/1229-mom-set-on-fire

[dionysus]

1. in my day the kids threw tantrums and then got over it. holy crap are things different now...

:(

[monmouth]

2. This is Florida, I live on the other coast. I swear it's in the drinking water...n/t

[sasquatch]

10. Do we need to start putting anti-psychotics in their drinking water

[Tansy_Gold]

11. Some would say it's in the milk and hamburgers

The various growth hormones given to beef and dairy cattle may have hastened sexual maturity in humans.

"Traditional" age of maturity for girls at 16 was based on average age at first menstruation. It's now much earlier, and -- though not common -- not unheard of at 9 or 10.

Back in the day (mid-1960s), there was a couple in my neighborhood, she was 13, he was 19. They got married a couple years later, were parents six months after that. It didn't last.



TG

[Warpy]

3. I got my first kiss at the age of 11

I was grabbed by a kid who was probably 14-15 who gave me a big sloppy kiss. Being a typical 11 year old, I socked him.

He ran away calling me an interplanetary skunk.

I have never forgotten my first kiss.

[WriteDown]

4. That would be the usual reaction...

I can't remember any 11 year olds and 15 year olds together when I was a kid. I can't even remember them hanging out together.

[Jamastiene]

7. How ROMANTIC!!!!

:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. interplanetary skunk????

:rofl:

:spray:

[Warpy]

9. Yeah, it cracked me up at the time, too

It's probably why I've never forgotten it.

[monmouth]

15. Wow...Got mine in a "spin the bottle" game at friend's house. Yours

was far more interesting...

[snagglepuss]

5. "Typical teenage angst". I don't think so. I'd hate to know the teeanagers

that cop knows.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. When TV fantasy becomes reality

for many kids all they know was on TV

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Wonder what treatment Faulkner would have given this story in his own writings.

Sounds a tad like his style with all the characters.

[MilesColtrane]

13. That's one seriously fucked up fifteen year old.

[Xenotime]

18. This teen needs counciling

[winyanstaz]

14. typical teens dont try to burn someone alive

That boy is dangerious and the girl is stupid.
Lock them both up and keep them there please.

[katkat]

16. gak

If you read more about this on the web, both families, parents included, sound like houses of horror.

WTF was that about "angst," the police are nuts.

[WriteDown]

17. Ugh..

Any links or more info on the situation?

[Dr.Phool]

19. Fucked up family all around.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/fire/article1061792.ece


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Broadhead's neighbors painted a picture of a family in disarray: a mother who was losing control and a daughter testing her boundaries.

"She didn't get along with her mom at all," said Janice Otto, who lives down the street. "It seemed like her mom didn't have a lot of control over her."

Kevin, Janice's son, said the daughter would talk about stealing things from Walgreens. Recently, he said, the girl's mom caught her smoking cigarettes with two older boys and that caused a big fight between them.

But the troubled relationship is also revealed in Nancy Broadhead's arrest record.

She was pulled over the night of July 4, 2002, according to Clearwater police records, accused of driving drunk with her then 4-year-old daughter in the car. She was arrested on charges of child neglect and DUI

Broadhead was sentenced to probation, but violated the terms in March 2003 when she tested positive for marijuana, according to court records.

Then on March 21, 2005, Clearwater police accused Broadhead of drunkenly pummeling her daughter, then 7, with her fists. Charges were dropped, and her attorney at the time said it was a "false accusation."

The girl told police that her mother "repeatedly hits her," and that she was in fear of her.

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Mike Jackson, whose back yard abuts Broadhead's, said his son Mikey, 10, used to play with the girl until this year when she started attending middle school. Jackson, 33, has lived in the neighborhood eight years.

She "is a nice girl, just in need of guidance," he said. "She joined the middle school crowd and slid away from us."

She started hanging out with older boys. Ault was one of them.

His first arrest came when he was 8, for battery. More followed. Between October and November, he was arrested twice within one week, including two counts of domestic battery and one of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

On Tuesday, Ault was taken into custody at a friend's house. He was also charged with grand theft for stealing Broadhead's car. The Ford Focus, which police say the children fled in after the fire, was found abandoned at a church less than 2 miles away.

Police say they would take Ault to the Pinellas County Juvenile Assessment Center.

Ault's mother, Shannon Mastrangelo, answered her front door with tears streaming down her face, a cell phone to her ear.

"My son was just arrested," she said. "I don't have time for anything."

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Families of both of the accused have extensive case records with the Florida Department of Children and Families, said spokeswoman Erin Gillespie.

Case workers have responded to calls at least once every year since 1998 for the Broadheads and since 2000 for Ault's family. The details of those cases are not public unless granted by a court.

There are no open DCF cases with either family, Gillespie said.
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[juno jones]

20. I feel for the mom.

BUT

To not smell gas, to only be awakened by the alarm when the room is in flames around you at dangerous levels...

I hope this poor lady gets treatment.

The girl is kinda scary tho.

[WriteDown]

22. Wow...

We cannot allow these two families to breed.

[greiner3]

21. More importantlly;

Are they following their state's teachings and remaining celibate? Ewww, the thought makes me queasy.