BOYS' BRUTALITY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19887, 15 March 1939, Page 11

BOYS' BRUTALITY

TREATMENT OP CHILD DROPPED BRICKS Oi\ T HEAD LONDON, Jan. 20. Twelve years was the age 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 waste 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.” Mr. W. Culshaw, prosecuting, said: “This is one of the most brutal and savage cases it has 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 his 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 boy 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 him in the face with our fists, and I kept running to the door to see if anyone was coming. Hit With Bar “The other boy hit the lad on the head with a bar and he was covered with blood, so we pulled him into a shed. Then we took all his clothes off and we both started to throw bricks at him. We lifted the lad into a tin 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 bricks. The lad was coated with