Teenage viciousness

What do you do with such children? How did they get to be like the way they are, filled with resentment and fury? what was their desire as teenagers in a toy shop? Games? Often my heart goes out to these apparently neglected children. How can one think that they weren't neglected? A thriteen year old is still a child, no matter what the world may think. that young lad still has a lot of growing to do in mind as well as in size. What about his parents? Or is it a parent! So many troubled kids because of the social revolution, emancipation of women, and easy divorces, much that can be good of these events, but most went haywire with this so-called new found freedom. Marriages aren't worked at anymore. Children aren't taught correct principles anymore. Have a spat and a divorce is easy, words that spring to spiteful lips in the heat of the moment. And all the time the youthful ones are listening. With wsuch things happening now, what about the next generation? Its a frightening thought. And yet, there are those who work at their marriages, love and nuture their children, teach correct principles, and these youngsters stand out. May the Lord have mercy on us for having to put a 13 year old behind bars! Well anyway, that's what O'Grady sez.....

FOUR youths have been questioned over a massive fire that gutted a north Queensland shopping complex.
No one was injured in the blaze on Greenfield Boulevard, Mackay, but it destroyed most of the Toys R Us, Clark Rubber and Autobarn stores.
Emergency services received reports of the fire at about 11.45am (AEST) on Saturday and it took more than three hours for the blaze to be contained, with the Department of Community Safety (DCS) saying the main fire was put out at about 3pm.
Police said four juveniles were questioned over the fire and two boys, aged 10 and 13, were still assisting with inquiries on Saturday evening.
Officers will remain at the scene overnight as investigations into the cause of the fire continue.
A public safety order is still in place because of concerns about toxic smoke from burning chemicals in some of the shops.

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A nearby shop worker, who did not want to be named, said witnesses saw four teenagers being arrested in the car park.

"They (the teenagers) were in our shop this morning. We hunted them out. They were being horrible in here," she told AAP.
"Officers have put those young people in a paddy wagon."

The DCS said a fire investigator would be brought in to work out how the blaze started.

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13-year-old boy charged with arson remanded in custody over Mackay fire that destroyed Toys R Us, Autobarn and Clark Rubber

• by: Kate McKenna
• From:The Courier-Mail
• November 12, 20125:00PM

Mackay shopping centre fire that destroyed Toys R Us, Autobarn and Clark Rubber. Picture: Catherine Woodworth. Source: Supplied

A TEENAGER charged with arson over a major blaze in Mackay will spend four days behind bars before his next court appearance.

The inferno destroyed Mackay's Toys R Us, Autobarn and Clark Rubber stores on Saturday.
The 13-year-old boy, who was remanded in custody after a closed hearing today in the Mackay Children's Court, has also been charged with shoplifting, endangering property and wilful damage.
He will appear again on Friday.
  

The fire at North Mackay engulfs the Toys R Us store. Picture: Seven News