Horrific: Minn. Teen Burned Alive by Mother’s Boyfriend Speaks Out
- Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:42pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A St. Paul, Minn. teenager spoke out for the first time Friday about a horrific attack in which his mother’s boyfriend allegedly doused him in lighter fluid while he was sleeping and lit him on fire.
Wrapped in bandages, Antoine Willis, 19, suffered second- and third-degree burns to his head, neck and torso, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
“I thought I was going to die because I’ve never been burned alive,” Willis said from a St. Paul hospital about the Wednesday attack. “It was terrible.”
The boyfriend, 54-year-old Curtis E. Reed, has been charged with assault. According to the Daily Mail, he shouted, “I got you now! I got you now!” as Willis tried to put out the flames.
The Tribune reported:
According to the complaint, Willis’ mother, Jodi Stewart, awoke to her son’s screams about 7 a.m. and saw that “a fireball as big as a basketball” surrounded his head.
Reed chased Willis out of the house in the 1300 block of Ames Avenue on the East Side, continuing to spray him with the lighter fluid. Willis fled to a neighbor’s house, where an ambulance was called.
Hours earlier, according to the Tribune, Reed had threatened Stewart with a knife. Willis and two of Stewart’s friends intervened, beating Reed.
Reed and Stewart have been in a relationship for eight years, and he has been convicted of attacking her before.
“I don’t want to talk to him,” Stewart said. “I’m totally in shock….For him to do something like this is outrageous.”
Willis, who could be in the hospital for at least three to four weeks, said he’s been having nightmares about the attack.
“I had a dream last night that I had seen him in my room,” Willis said. “When I woke up it was just another nurse, and it scared me to death because I thought he’d come back to finish what he started.”
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Comments (102)
Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:45pmWhen we cease to have a religion to base morals on –
Society breaks down
When society breaks down
We get incidents like there where people think it’s OK to act like the video game they just played earlier
Shootings in car show parking lots -
Burning people on purpose
Gay marriage
Beatings in subways
Beating in McDonalds
AND I blame it on the PROGRESSIVES who have been trying to get rid of religion – of a God based society and morals.
Report Post »USMarine0311
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:34pmEvil is hard at work in the world….stay vigilant.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:45amperfect example of why single mothers shouldn’t “date”.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 1:17pmSo, he douses his girlfriends son in lighter fluid and sets him on fire… and is under arrest for “assault??”
How about ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER?
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:37amThat’s not assault. That’s attempted murder. Twice.
Let him rot for life.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:34pmWhat a grueling, bestial attack that fiend did to Antoine! I hope he pays severely for burning him up for NO REASON AT ALL! I also think the mother is just as guilty for failing to distance herself away from him when she knew about his previous attacks toward her.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 2:01pmi agree, she should have left or done everything she could have to protect herself and her son, we don’t know the whole story, but why was her boy friend at the home to start with ,why was he not in jail for trying to stab her the night before, she should have nevi let him near her home, much less her self and her son. we will have to wait for the whole story.
Report Post »capitalideals
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 2:14pmI am a retired firefighter and was burned 65 percent second and third degree in an explosion in 1986. There are no words to express how horrific a burn injury is, unless you have experienced it you cannot imagine the excruciating pain. The man who did this should get life without parole, even though the boy probably isn’t going to die. He certainly isn’t out of the woods yet, there are issues like infection that have to be dealt with.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 2:58pmCapitalIdeals
So sorry to hear about your injury. Hope you are doing well. No I cannot even imagine this.Just a small burn hurts so much. Killing this man is too good for him. This child will never be the same.I cant imagine how many surgeries he is facing. Skin grafts etc. God be with this Child. The Mother is responsible for this horrible act also. He should have been locked up. But the Mother should never have allowed this man back into their lives.It said this was not the first time he had been abusive to her. She had a responsibility to protect her son if she didn’t care about herself.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:41pmI grew up on stories from my dad, who was burned with buring gasoline at his neckline and both arms and both shins. It didn’t sound very pleasant at all. This young man is going to be going through surgeries and therapy for a while. We prayed for him in our church today.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 8:35pmThis is the result of interracial dating and marriage. As soon as I read the headline I knew exactly what the situation was and proceeded to verifty it. Save all of your slurrs for someone who gives a damn but if you want to get a small glimpse into how prevalent these crimes are which are being hid from White America by our Alein Media then visit the following site on Youtube.
DIEversity102
Only through first education then Unity will we survive this attack upon our people.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 9:46pm@Mr. Oshawott…….So if the jerk had a “good” reason it would have been OK to set the kid on fire?
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 1:28amIf the mother goes back to this guy after this, then she has some serious problems herself.
I know that the attack of this father figure hurts more than the burned skin. You can hear it in the interview where he says “I never thought I would be burned alive”. You can hear the pain of betrayal in his voice, where he is really saying, “I never thought my dad hated me so much that he was capable of trying to kill me”.
I hope these people have a good safety net of family and friends around them, and I hope a good, NO BS Councilor gets involved with them.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:39amMaybe this guy will get a dose of his own medicine when he gets in prison with the “real bad boys”. I can’t imagine doing something like that to an animal, let alone a human being. The kid will probably be scared for the rest of his life and the mom should share the blame. She’s the one that brought the thug into the home.With his history of violence against her it should have been clear that the kid would be his next target.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 2:20pmZeitgeistBuster: We put warning labels on cig packs and the stats connecting smoking w/ cancer are far less than those corresponding w/ interracial violence. Just a fact. I play by the averages that’s all.
My biggest issue is not the level of violence itself eventhough it is awful; it’s the fact that it is intentionally hid from white America.
Report Post »Tejada
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:50pmIt’s dangerous to redirect attention away from the most important issue. It’s EVIL and it comes in all colors. Everyone needs to stand united against this.
Report Post »thetommyhawk
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:34pmWhere is Dexter? He knows what to do!
Report Post »neverending
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:23pmIs there even any hope left?
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:23pmSick……………poor child, mother should have known better.
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:21pmBoth men in question are black? The woman is white and obese? And all three are likely uneducated to the point of being stupid? C’mon, bet me? It’s the same old story…
S_Malc13
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:43pmMeanwhile, a white, blond-hair, blue-eyed, presumably successful guy not on anybody’s radar kills 92 people. Point is, liberals are rife with accusations and slander, so why must you stoop to their level?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 2:10pmWhat woman were you looking at that was obese. Did you even watch the video, she’s got to be a size 6 or since the camera puts 10 pounds on you, a size 4. What, do you have to be a size 0 or 2 to not be considered obese? And what does race have to do with this? The man was an idiot
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 3:20pmMOONPEACE,
SHUT UP! IDIOT!
Report Post »You have no idea!
sodacrackers2
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 3:30pmWe are each responsible for what we do or do not do. So, moonpeace, how about you just take your own garbage out now.
Report Post »bassmanjerry
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 4:24pmYou are an idiot!
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:34pmMoonpeace has had way too many drugs, and still does. What a crappy name. Reminds me of the liberal bumper stickers.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 7:46pmSo what is you point? Maybe they’re black Muslims, maybe the women is a non practicing Jew or Catholic, maybe the Miami Heat should have won the last game! Maybe the best way to stop racism is to be the first not to use it to explain every evil act. I see as many evil whites as I do any other race. GOD is the answer and the love of Jesus heals.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 8:39pmIf you really want to get a peak into how prevalent these attacks are visit the following site on Youtube.
DIEversity102
10s of thousands of our people are being slaughtered by these savages. It’s time for White America to awaken.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 11:56pmRight on, happens all the time, funny this made the news at all, you should spend some time watching some of the news from Detroit, makes this look pretty tame, things like this happen all the time there, the liberals love it!!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:17pmWhat’s wrong with telling this creep to get out? His friends beating the crapp out of him was an escalation. We have their word he pulled a knife. We don’t know anything else except the friends beat the crapp out of him, and that the guy later lit the kid on fire. Inexcusable and horrid for sure but where did it start and why did it keep on if this wackjob was all this bad prior? He was convicted of attacking her before? The mother attacking this guy who just had a knife and threw it at her kid? Why not tell him to get out? Why was he in the house later this night? It ends up like this because why?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 2:13pmI’ve worked for the police department as a dispatcher. Domestic violence victims often feel there’s no way out, so they keep taking the abuser back. Sometimes they call the police on them, but when the police intervene, they side with the abuser instead of the police. That’s why domestic violence calls are the worst and always have back up.
Report Post »DetroitMom
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 1:11pmUsually, someone goes to jail. Here it’s out of the hands of the caller to press charges. If domestic abuse is suspected, somebody goes to jail. Here it becomes a case between the City and the accused, not the victim and the accused.
Report Post »Slick Willie
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:14pmDo this to my kid…and I’ll personally bail you out of jail, then proceed to put a bullet right between your eyes.
The Mom clearly shares some blame too.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:30pmHey Mom if you bring a vicious dog into your home for 8 years and he bites you and ends up mauling and maiming your Child I am going to question you .
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:40pmHang the man and throw the moms as* in jail for a long while. To many of these idiots put their kids in harms way because of their own selfishness. Start throwing them in jail too when they keep going back to men who beat them and have kids in the household.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 4:03pmSLICK WILLIE,
Report Post »The Mother is a TOXIC parent.
A doctor’s first responsibility to a patient is,“I will do you no harm”.
A parent’s first responibility to a child is,“I will keep you safe”.
This mother failed.
There are not a lot of details in this story. But the teen’s last name is Willis. The Mother’s last name is StewartReading between the lines that says a lot.. She’s been with the monster Reed for 8 years.
That means the boy was only 11 when she “GIFTED” him with his surrogate “DAD”.
The boyfriend(her love forevermore) has attacked the Mother before. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the boy has also been attacked .
I hope THE BLAZE follows up on this story.
I hope the boy’s face will not be disfigured by his burns.
The Mother should be charged along with her “BOYFRIEND”.
cassandra
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:13pmhurry up Biaz, Curtis can be your next client, just blame it on someone else
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:12pmyou take the ex boyfriend out and you douse him in gasoline and put a match to him and after he burns long enough to disfigure him you then put him out. Then you proceed to castrate the Demorat and may take his arms and hands off and let him live like the animal he is suppose to be.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:33pmWhy put him out??
Report Post »Brae
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:12pmFather figure? Adoring mother? Family unit? What am I missing here?!?!?
Report Post »wtc101
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:09pmDittos Klevalt.
The pain this young man will live with going forward is immeasurable. The pain of guilt leveled at the mother for failing her son should be, and will be…eternal.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:21pmNot necessarily true,.,. The Capitalist pigs have developed a stem cell treatment (non embryonic) that can be made from his own skin cells and sprayed on the damage. This has been proven to result in a miraculous near complete recovery in 5 days. The stinkin’ Capitalist pigs developed this in an evil profit (Payroll and development) making scheme…
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:09pmhurry up Biaz Curtis can be your next client I’m sure you will work hard to get him off , I know just say the mother really did it
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:09pmStupid mother letting a beast like that even in her home. I do not even begin to understand women who live in violent homes. Unfortunately this brave young man is considered an adult so now the system can not go after the mother for endangering his life. To make matters worse the prosecutor is only filing assault charges against this beast. Attempted murder sounds like a more appropriate charge. I hope this young man can heal both mentally and physically.
Report Post »264win
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:02pmMore “Hope & Change” as this country spirals into the abyss
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:00pmIf you died today, would you go to Heaven?
Report Post »Greenwood
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:47pmWhen a person dies he ceases to exist. We do not possess an immortal soul. We will be brought back to life. John 5: 28,29
Report Post »true2myword
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:59pmThis looks more like attempted murder to me. I hope they give the death penalty for “assault” in Minnesota. Otherwise, justice is not served.
Report Post »Blazeanswerman
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:59pmThe boyfriend, 54-year-old Curtis E. Reed, has been charged with assault. What? That’s it, assault? How about attempted murder? How horrible for this to have happened. I’d push for attempted murder Mr. DA.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:58pmAbsolutely unbelievable. They’re only charging him with assault? At least go for assault with intent to kill or attempted murder.
The mother put up with this treatment for years???!!! She clearly needs her head examined.
My thoughts are with the victim.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:56pmthe mother is to bame here….that boy was defending her from an abusive animal..im sure this wasnt the first time…she is a misfit and the animal should go to jail where he belongs and im sure has been there before for his entire wild animal life…
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 8:26pmAmericans being brutal towards their own again!So what else is new coming from a mass murdering,torturing terrorist nation?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:45amRose-Ellen is obviously not an American, and if you are, you need to move to a Muslim country. America is not a terrorist country, we‘ve just been infiltrated by terrorists and some have been brainwashed by the liberals that they’re bad. I have a handicapped son and the term “learned helplessness” and “self-fulfilling prophecy” come to mind. If you do everything for someone (pay them not to work) they won’t do anything for themselves. If you tell them something negative often enough (the white man is out to get you, all blacks are thugs), it fulfills itself.
Report Post »LeftyLieDetector
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:28pmRose-Fascist: How much money do you want to bet that this CRIMINAL voted for Obama and lives in a Democrap district (like where most of the crime comes from)?? I’ll bet you your $100 a month welfare check.
Report Post »yohannbiimu
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 12:11pmAbsolutely. This sort of thing happens all the time in Democrat-dominated areas. When I lived in Michigan, I read about this sort of barbarity going on in Detroit all the time, and Detroit has been run by collectivist/progressives for at least the past 50 years. It’s the result of a culture that is bred into people in collectivist-dominated regions where human life has no inherent or objective value. The “collective mind” teaches people to respond with their emotions and their bellies, rather than solve problems with their brains. Someone mentioned here that the world is going insane–well, it’s because people do not use the brains that they were born with. They have degenerated into amoebas. The only thing that the “new world order” (collectivism) has done to people is to make them into mindless organisms with no other capacity than to consume and destroy.
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:56pmThere is a special hell, and this man is going to live it for what he’s done to this child.. Find out what prison Mr.reed is going to.. Lets talk to some people there…
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:53pmPeople are going insane, everywhere.
Report Post »klevalt
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:50pmI lay this solely on the mother! She should have put her son ahead of her own desires LONG ago! She allowed her son to come to her defense (and what good son wouldn’t?!) But for so long! Shame on her! Whatever her motivation for keeping that loser around is the reason her son is in the hospital, likely disfigured for life on this day. Hang the bastard that did this, but also punish the mom.
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 1:00pmYou are right. A parent’s duty is to protect their children, no matter how old the child is.
Report Post »Children are a gift from God.
gotta light
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 12:48pmGod bless and watch over this child.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:41amThe man is only charged with assault. He should be tried for attempted murder at least,
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