My name is Ashtar you dimwit.
Are you willing to consider any possiblity other than child abuse? After all, you mentioned it four times in this thread before anyone else did. I didn’t mean that this child has minor injuries. Read what KGS had to say again:
All I meant is don’t jump the gun and start jumping up and down, pointing and yelling, “Child abuser! Child abuser!”
There are three things that make me doubt the “terrorist/parents exploding jawbreaker” theory.
(1) If it was someone else, what’s the fucking motive? Seriously!
(2) If it was someone else, couldn’t they have done something more fucking direct? Seriously!
(3) An exploding fucking jawbreaker? What the fuck!
Sorry, I just had a mug and a half of coffee.
Hey look, everyone, Bosda is extending his dragnet. Bang the drum loudly, oh one of Tricor. Do you have a personal grudge against this girl’s parents? 
BTW: the burns on her face and arm look like the product of one part Bic, three parts Aqua Net.
1)Whats the motive of the parents? There is no motive to blame on the parents, either.
People hurt others by sabotaging food and products frequently. The example that jumps to mind are the Tylenol poisonings of a few decades ago. I suppose they are too cowardly to attack directly.
Weird “WTF” things happen.
Possibly apocryphal vaudeville routine:
First Banana: I’ve just spent two weeks in bed with acute hepatitis.
Second Banana: "Which one, you lucky dog? They’re both cute, those Hepatitis girls.
Possibly apocryphal vaudeville routine:
First Banana: I’ve just spent two weeks in bed with acute hepatitis.
Second Banana: "Which one, you lucky dog? They’re both cute, those Hepatitis girls.
You know, this wouldn’t be the first time a Jawbreaker has acted like a bomb.
This generation’s Heathers. Lament for my cock.
All I know is, I’m not in a position to know what really happened. But I think there are two possible scenarios here.
The girl is burned because of something her parents did. In which case, the jawbreaker had nothing to do with it: either it wasn’t an actual jawbreaker, or she was burned some other way, and they came up with “exploding jawbreaker” as an alibi.
The jawbreaker really did explode. In which case, nobody “did it”; it was just an unlikely but possible chemical reaction. I don’t see anyone “tampering” with a real jawbreaker, in any way other than applying heat, that would make it explode.
Anyway, if half the jawbreaker was on the lawn, I would think that lends credence to the “explosion” story. People who cook up stories to cover wrongdoing often miss details like remembering to put part of the jawbreaker in the front yard, where they claim the girl was when it blew up.
Rilchiam, you forgot Opal. <tsk tsk>
My thoughts are maybe the girl burned herself some other way, but blamed it on the jawbreaker she conveniently had in her hand that received some collateral damage of its own. Parents, smelling a nice lawsuit, went along…
Aside, I just hope it’s not legitimately the jawbreaker – God help the TSA if I’m forced by extension to fly without Mentos.
What kind of child abuse would result in the injuries you can see in that picture? Throwing lye in her face? That looks like a pretty weird pattern of burns and cuts to me.
As pointed out above, a can of Aqua Net Hairspray, ignited by an ordinary Bic lighter, could conceiveably do that kind of harm.
Mr. B–are you supporting my OP’s premise, abusing me, or both? 
Lord Ashtar–I apologise for mis-posting you name, pompus though it is. I am usually a good speller. Unfortunately, I am also a very poor typist, particularly when I am in the dark, as I am right now. Computer’s in a photo dark room.
You know, as a tangent…I would be willing to bet that there is/has already been an investigation into whether or not this was child abuse.
My sister broke her arm when she was about a year and a half old. This was my fault, incidentally, but I was about six at the time, so I didn’t know any better. When we took l’il sis to the doctor–which was a couple of days later, because she could just BARELY say a few words at the time, so at first my mom thought it was another ear infection, which she DID have and which the family doc gave us a 'scrip for. I told them what happened.
They still grilled both me and my mom to find out whether it was child abuse.
If the hospital is doing its job, those parents have already been grilled, and I’d be willing to bet that the child has, too. Because, frankly, that’s the first thing I’d think seeing that kind of injury.
I’m not saying it COULDN’T POSSIBLY be child abuse. . .but you don’t print that kind of stuff until you’re sure it IS. Until then, an “exploding jawbreaker” story is just fine.
Just ribbing you a little, thought you’d get a grin.
After devoting my very early years to a pursuit of all things confectionery, I find it hard to believe the story of an exploding/ squirting/ booby-trapped jawbreaker.
And respectfully, I think you’re with too little provocation stabbing at the parents; kids do stupid things and make up unbelievable cover stories, but it’s the parents who are supposed to get to the bottom of it and not let some wacky jawbreaker yarn get to the papers. I’m not saying abuse is not a possibility here, but crimony, burning a kid like that is some pretty egregious torture – that IMHO as a former child counselor doesn’t just start overnight.
Hi Opal.
Sounds fairly unlikely, but the parents did mention that they bought the jawbreakers on vacation to Georgia or something like that. I would not be suprised if this candy had been exposed to several hours in a hot car during the trip when they had stopped somewhere to sight-see. The candy may have heated up and additional sugar from the inner layer of the candy been absorbed into the liquid, having a secondary effect of thinning the candy shell. Super-Saturated sugary(and sugar forms crystals) liquid. The freezing process would have further weakened the shell and the application of some heat when she took it out of the freezer may have triggered the reaction, which would really have taken off when the shell broke and it was no longer constrained via pressure.
Anyway, I see no reason to actively disbelieve the parents. Innocent until proven guilty. No mention of abusive history or any marks noted at the hospital beyond this incident. As I mentioned earlier, evidence, then accusations. That order and that order only.
Enjoy,
Steven
Ah, I see. You have no argument against my points so you attack me by calling my user name pompous. Preview is your friend.
Looks like the terrorists are winning.
No doubt Ashcroft is moving in on Willy Wonka as we speak.
One way that prisoners in jail choose to injure each other is to make a syrup of near boiling water and sugar.
This then is thrown in the face of the intended victim.
I have seen this and the injuries sustained by the girl are very similar indeed.
Look at it another way, if your child had been injured like this, and you were responsible, how would you cover it up ?
You would probably know that it would be discovered to be a hot syrup burn.
I know what my view is, and I would be surprised if Bosda was at all far from the truth, it might not be the parents, could be another sibling, whatever, I also do not buy into the exploding Jaw Breaker, not for a moment.
The Smoking Gun has police reports regarding the jawbreaker.