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HELP!! The House Is On Fire...Save My FOOD STAMPS! Forget About The Two Burning Children!

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Aunt Cares More About Her Food Stamps Than Burning Children!!! So Sad!!

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MEMPHIS, TN - A three-year-old Memphis boy died in a house fire and his two-year-old brother is in critical condition at Le Bonheur. Both boys, say officials, were left home alone for hours on Monday, October 19th, 2009 while their mother, Melanie Dunn, ran errands and went shopping for clothes.

The fire started around 3 p.m. at 1242 Effie near Elliston in South Memphis. Investigators with the Memphis Fire Department says most of the fire damage is in the rear of the house where the bedrooms are located.

Neighbors like Posey Piggie watched in shock as firefighters carried the boys' tiny, lifeless bodies out of the house.

"One of the little babies," she says, "looked real, you know, real limp like."

While fire investigators tried to figure out what started the fire, the boys' aunt, Marilyn Watson, stunned reporters at the scene by admitting that she and Dunn left the boys at home by themselves, not once, but twice on Monday.

"We had left them this morning," says Watson, "and I had went to the food stamp office. We got back and everything was all right. I didn't know they was going to set the house on fire like that."

And instead of rushing to the hospital to be with the children, Watson's only interest was getting back inside her neice's house.

"I really need to get in there," she says, "to see if my purse burnt up, 'cause I had my food stamp card and everything in there."

Neighbors Orlandria Rosser and Jasmine Lott are unable to imagine leaving children that young home alone for any reason.

"No, never," says Lott. "Not two or three, especially. Not even seven."

"Maybe 13 or 14," says Rosser, "when they know what to do and what not to do. But not two or three."

As the heartbreak spread its' way down Effie Street, it soon gave way to anger that two grown women could be so careless with two precious little lives.

"You know this happened more than once," says neighbor Shun Evans. "It probably happened more than once and it finally caught up with them."

"Something should happen to them," says Rosser, "because there's no excuse. It's unacceptable."

"I just think justice needs to be done," another neighbor tells myEyewitnessNews.com, "because that was ridiculous."

Family members say Melanie Dunn was a single mother raising three boys. Investigators have not released the name of her three-year-old who died in the fire. The two-year-old is still hospitalized at Le Bonheur. And Dunn's five-year-old son was at school when the fire started.

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    and you aint bad either XD

  • Thanks

  • Never leave a child alone, i agree. Such a horrible thing that the kids died.

  • You are so right! Thanks for the comment!

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  • mmmmmm mmmm

  • I knew it was a crackhead once I heard her say she had to drop "some dude" off lmao. SMFH

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  • I just care about my life.

  • i'm confused. i thought all you crackhead welfare monkeys stuck together.

  • I DONT KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH MAN SHE MADE BLACK PPL LOOK SO DAM BAD ITS SCARY

  • Country niggers. Go back to pickin muh croops.

  • Yall are seeing it in the wrong light, she figured the dead chilren would make up for er freeloading ass.

  • Can you say birth contol. was planned parenthood closed when you where too busy getting food stamps.

  • MONKEYS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • YALL DO ANAL

  • THIS IS NOT FUNNY,IF YOU 2 WANT TO TELL OR TALK ABOUT A SERIOUS MATTER SUCH AS THIS TRAGEDY TO THESE 2 KIDS DEATH. YOU DON'T MAKE LITE OF THIS IN SUCH AN IGNORANT MANNER. YOU 2 TRYING TO BE THE NEXT OPRAH & GAYLE, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.YOU SPEAK OF HER NOT KNOWING HOW TO TALK, WHILE YOU 2 GIGGLING & TRYING TO BE COMICAL OVER A SAD CASE OF OTHERS PAIN IS VERY DIS-TASTEFUL. I HOPE YOU KNOW NEITHER OF YOU WERE SPEAKING PLAIN WITH THE STUPID GRINS AS COMMENTATERS. YOU 2 SHOWED PURE IGNRANCE.

  • stop judging her with your ignorance!!! you need to look in the mirror and realize that poor woman was very upset and mentioning food stamps was a way for her to cope. so do me a favor and stfu and try being a REAL woman like she showed on camera in all her glory. she is like the song says.. I am woman!!!! you are NOT!!!! YOU ARE TRASH!!!!!

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