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Caught on camera: Arsonist has kid with him as he sets donations on fire

WATCH ABOVE: Police in Texas are looking for the man seen in surveillance footage allegedly setting fire to a donation drop off centre - all while having a young child beside him. Jack Fink reports – Aug 16, 2016

Texas police are looking for a man who is believed to have set fire to two donation drop offs – all while having a young child beside him.

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A surveillance video released by the Fort Worth, Tex. fire department shows the alleged arsonist on Aug. 4 going through the donated items at the Northside Inter Community Agency with a young boy beside him.

The child was seen in the footage walking around and even watching what the unidentified man was doing from time to time.

During one part of the video, according to CBS affiliate KTVT News, the suspect goes behind the drop-off area and moments later, the child and suspect are seen getting into a vehicle before the fire starts a short time later.

Connie Nahoolewa, who is with the charity that collected the donations, said she doesn’t understand how someone could do such a thing.

“Your heart just sinks,” Nahoolewa told KTVT. “That day, it just cast a pall upon all of us.”

KTVT wrote the charity lost $1,500 worth of donations and had to pay at least $200 to dispose of the destroyed items.

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“It’s just one person that can do so much damage to your feelings of compassion and wanting to help others,” Nahoolewa told KTVT.

According to Talk Poverty, Texas ranked the 14th most impoverished state in the U.S. in 2015.

Officials continue to look for the suspect.

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