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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.
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/ t: C6 [. U& ^) X& x9 vThe 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)".
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Hao Hao received 80 percent burns. Ran Ran was less seriously injured with burns to 40 percent of his body.

Shun 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.
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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.
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+ N1 M: {' V; {, {2 GThe cartoon has previously shown several scenes of violence, generating negative effects and resulting in serious consequences, the court said.
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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.
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' u0 R+ k" `; v2 \From:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/chi ... ontent_17183285.htm