BOYS BRUTALITY
TREATMENT OF CHILD DROPPED BRICKS ON HEAD LONDON, Jan. 20.—Twelve years was the ago of a boy who, at Liverpool Juvenile Court yesterday, was said to have admitted, in a statement, that he and another lad took a- boy of seven to some Vraste land and : Jumped on him and punched him; stripped him - pelted him with bricks; put him in a bath, and dropped bricks on him “to make him go to sleep.”
Air. W. Culshaw, prosecuting, said: “This is one of the most brutal and savage cases it lias been my misfortune to meet.”
He added that the younger boy was seen naked in West Derby road, Liverpool. He had two deep cuts on the top of Ill's head. His forehead and face were badly swollen, and the whole of his body was covered with bruises. The lad said he had been attacked by a gang of boys. The accused boy, it was stated, said to a policeman: “I only held him. The “other boy hit him;” but at the police station he was said to have stated:—
“Me and another hoy met the lad. We got two bottles of lemonade and told,' the lad to come with us. “When we got him to the yard in street we took him inside and jumped on him. We both‘kept hitting hint in the face with our lists, aha? 1 kept running to the door to see if anyone was coining. Hit With Bar. “The other hoy hit the lad on the head with a bar and he was covered with blood, soi we pulled him into a shed. Then we took all his clothes off and we both started to throw bricks at him.t We lifted the lad into a tiii bath and then started to hit him to make him go to sleep. “I didn’t hit the lad with the iron. I only hit him with a strap and some brick,s. The lad was. coated with blood when he was and lie said, ‘t am warm. Let me go to sleep.’ So wc got on the roof and dropped a lot of bricks on his head, and when ho was still we went away and left him in the bath.” , When the boy. was ordered to a remand homo for seven days his mother asked: “Can’t he come home?” Mrs. Domain, chairman of the magistrates, exclaimed, “My goodness, I should think not. He might have committed murder
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 161, 22 March 1939, Page 1
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