标题: 【Daily Reading】 Chinese cartoon blamed for children's [打印本页] 作者: vivian 时间: 2013-12-18 22:45 标题: 【Daily Reading】 Chinese cartoon blamed for children's NANJING - A Chinese court on Wednesday decided the producer of a popular animation was partly to blame for injuries to two children when another child imitated an episode of the TV series.1 B0 [" w2 z0 ?- v4 {
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The two brothers, Ran Ran, 7, and Hao Hao, 4, from Donghai County in east China's Jiangsu Province, were badly burnt on April 6, when they were tied to a tree and set alight by their friend Shun Shun, 10, who confessed he was imitating a scene from the cartoon "Xi Yangyang & Hui Tailang (Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf)". 7 G; C: F1 |7 M9 f. i- Y1 h; N2 z' A _
Hao Hao received 80 percent burns. Ran Ran was less seriously injured with burns to 40 percent of his body. 0 I4 O/ U) T% a/ f# }0 {- k ) o) j) D* Y% {. `6 x; ]3 QShun Shun's legal guardians and the cartoon producer -- Guangzhou's Creative Power Entertaining Co., Ltd. -- are jointly responsible for the two brothers' injuries, according to the verdict of the court. 4 L( K; b% k2 m1 r# h6 @& p. T9 v4 d" p! t2 v5 D! j# U, q* u/ B
The cartoon is aimed at children, so producers are obliged to scrutinize violence carefully, said the court, adding that inappropriate scenes should be edited out and warnings given.+ U& n' F2 P6 b
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The cartoon has previously shown several scenes of violence, generating negative effects and resulting in serious consequences, the court said. + z3 |' x+ f" U+ R2 ?5 a" B" u' P! _7 k$ X- R
According to the ruling, Shun Shun's guardians will pay 60 percent of the injured brothers' compensation and the cartoon producer will shoulder 15 percent./ y" N* d1 X( {