Child burned by ‘redneck flamethrower’
Jonathon Michael Miller, 29, and Stephen Ray Dilley II, 32, were jailed in Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday Nov. 17, four days after setting a five-year-old boy’s head on fire with what the men described as a ‘redneck flamethrower’—that is, a can of aerosol spray and a lighter.
According to a police affidavit, Miller—the current boyfriend of the boy’s mother—told investigators he’s been trying to toughen the boy up and the best way to do it is to “scare the s—t out of [him] when [he] don’t see it coming.” (The mother, who has five children, also has a child fathered by Dilley.)
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