Thanks to a deposition he gave on his deathbed, he received justice years after an attacker set him on fire. His attacker was imprisoned, and the boy’s family received $150 million in a civil lawsuit.
On his eighth birthday, another boy tied Robbie to a tree, poured gasoline on him and set him on fire in the woods. Despite the flames that ate away at his body, the young boy stumbled home, collapsing on the street in a ball of fire.
According to the Mirror, his mother found him close to death, with severe blisters covering his whole body and skin hanging off his ankles. The burns covered 99 percent of his body and left him without eyelids. Read the full story here ▶
