Parents must teach children right from wrong, and safe from unsafe, while youngsters are watching cartoons, experts said.

The comments followed a court verdict in Jiangsu province, in a case in which two boys suffered severe burns while mimicking a scenario from the popular cartoon series Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. The boys' hospital bills were more than 260,000 yuan ($42,800).

Donghai County People's Court in Lianyungang ruled on Wednesday that the legal guardians of the boy who set the fire must assume 60 percent of the costs. Creative Power Entertaining in Guangdong province, the producer of the cartoon, must pay 15 percent, and the boys' parents must pay the rest.