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. ; |' k0 o9 k( D/ H# @% F( {9 B* G4 ]7 v+ l& ~4 J% l# t! T* ]
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)". G* L1 y$ [: @
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Hao Hao received 80 percent burns. Ran Ran was less seriously injured with burns to 40 percent of his body.! Y/ |# C$ f0 @
. S4 O# Q' z7 vShun 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. - q! t6 V6 s1 O : U% r9 C; `* L( O0 k" ?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. 9 |. w1 C7 y1 l! M1 A' v: m/ D j- j% D! p" ^( A; z
The cartoon has previously shown several scenes of violence, generating negative effects and resulting in serious consequences, the court said. $ u* r# t: x3 G: z7 r4 z" a* Y2 s& ?+ a( k; u
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. 1 u, k: ~6 T( y, Z: o H4 z6 B3 B1 g3 R* t* O