Swedish boy, 6, stabbed for 'wearing pink'
The Local
Published: 11 Feb 11 11:00 CET


http://www.thelocal.se/31978/20110211/


A 6-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck at a preschool in Jönköping in central Sweden after having been the target of bullies for an extended period of time, reported the local Jönköpings-Posten daily.

what gets me, is that some of the comments blame the boy's parents.  Because they let him go to school, wearing nail polish and pink. 

Come on.  The parents who are to be blamed are the bullies parents.  Both the parents and the bullies need a little in in jail.

The comments bother me also... But what really gets me ticked off is that the school's staff described it as a small incident    Let's see someone stab them in the neck with a blunt knife and see how small of an incident it is

What a terrible response from the school when such things are happening to a 6 yr old child

I can't believe the school did nothing.  That is ridiculous!  The child is only 6 years-old!  K-12 schools really need to get their act together about bullying.  It is so sad that this happened to a child at such a young age.  I hope the parents sue the school.  Sweden schools really need to pick it up when it comes to bullying, regardless if it has to do with gender or not.

Now I understand my parents to forbid me to have long polished nails (at early school age)

Hate to bring this up, but...

There's nothing in this news report that suggests that the kid even started bleeding. Just that there was a "noticable injury" to his neck. That "injury", in the way it was phrased, could be a simple bruise, and in that case calling it a "minor incident" would be pretty accurate - kids attacking other kids is pretty mundane, and kids attacking other kids in such a way as to leave a bruise shouldn't happen, but when it does it is a pretty minor incident.

Now, note that I don't know anything more than what that article says. He could very well have been seriously injured, and in that case this would be a major incident.

In short: We don't know enough to judge whether or not this is "kid is almost killed" or just "kid is bullied a bit" (which would obviously also be bad, but nowhere near as much). And until we see other sources with more information, we won't.

the perp should be removed from society until a truly functional "Redemption Machine" can be built. the idea that a stabby 6-year-old will NOT grow up to be a stabby, rapey or shootey 26 year old is preposterous.

fix the problem now...or lethally inject it later.

It is entirely normal behaviour for young people of any gender to play with other stuff. OK some don't. My nephew loved wearing nail polish when he was a kiddy. He  has no GID as far as I know it was just kindy stuff that  children do. I walked past a shop this afternoon that does fairies and pirates shows  for children. They can get dressed and are read a story etc  and M&D can stay with them, half of the boys were dressed as fairies and half the girls as pirates. No one gave a damn. Goddess they are under fives. It's just fun and learning.

Sadly I agree with Tekla. Terrible thing to give a child the death penalty.

Why are we producing children who can kill? It is becoming horribly more common? The case in the UK were two boys could kidnap and kill a younger boy is very chilling.  They must have been studied, I wonder what was the trigger?

Cindy

How the heck am I still alive then?

Life is so unfair to people. One person goes far further this and never encounters problems, another does it once and gets stabbed. There is no logic or consistency to it all.

And some brain washed kid wearing a bomb belt lets the world understand politics

Good thing the supposedly blunt knife didn't land in an eye or hit an artery I guess.  Sad to see, but crap happens besause the world is full of  a***holes.

Bullying Abroad: Swedish Boy, 6, Attacked for Wearing Pink
by Kilian Melloy
Monday Feb 14, 2011

http://www.edgeboston.com/news////116255/bullying_abroad:_swedish_boy,_6,_attacked_for_wearing_pink

The plight of GLBT youth has come into the spotlight in the United States due to a wave of suicides last fall. But the problem is international in scope--as was evidenced by an incident in Sweden in which a 6-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck by a classmate because he liked pink clothing and dance, AOL News reported on Feb. 11.

The child, who was identified in the article by the named Oskar, had previously told his parents that classmates taunted him, calling him gay and saying that he was a girl because of his love of pink clothing and nail polish. Oskar also liked ballet, the article said.

This makes me think of Don't ask, Don't tell policy in military...