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February 13, 2012
Charges filed for torture- like parenting methods
Published: 26 Oct 09 11:53 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22882/20091026/
A Stockholm-area couple have been indicted for using torture-like methods to raise their children, including hitting them with shoehorns and stabbing them with knives and forks.
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During interviews with police, the children told of almost abuse from the parents when one of the failed to abide by the parents’ wishes.
“Mom hit me with a shoehorn,” one daughter told police, according to Metro.
According to the children, the couple also punished them with stabs from a knife and fork hard enough to cause pain, but not hard enough to cause visible injuries.
The parents deny the charges, instead claiming the children’s bruises come from injuries sustained during falls during gymnastics and athletics practice.
“Why would I hit my beloved children?,” the mother said to police during an interrogation.
Prosecutor Pontus Klang, who formally filed the charges of gross violation of a person’s integrity (grov fridskränkning), told Metro the indictment is based on interviews with the children as well as personnel from their school.
Ever since a formal complaint was received, the family has been placed in a supervised family care facility.
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Child abuse is RAMPANT in these types of families. I know this from working in the Swedish school system for a couple of years now. It's no secret. Anyone who disputes this is ignorant or possibly an ultra-leftist.
Is everyone in the Swedish school system as open minded as you or are you just special?
Would you prefer the two murderers in the article "Juvenile care for Stureby teen killing" be middle eastern as well?
Have you been so brainwashed by peecee thought control?
Your statement doesn't make any sense.
Saying 'every community experiences this' is a cop-out. There is a problem of child and spousal abuse and it's overwhelmingly among your Muslim cultural enrichers.
Quite simple really.
OK your last comment makes sense but the previous one didn't - maybe you were writing as you speak.
However nowhere in the article does it say that the family in question was muslim. Do you have some more insight in to this matter or are you just one of these people who blames all of swedens ills on immigrants?
Fact is, and surely you must realise this, that Islam as we know it's practiced is totally incomptaible with Swedish culture? I've spoken to many Muslims in Stockholm and they admit that they often find Swedish culture 'disgusting' (a bit ironic, that!) and that they'd love to change it.
You say "have some awesome friends who are muslim -they don't drink, don't fight, and don't beat their spouses or children". I'm sure you're correct. But what does it prove? That not all or even a majority of Muslims are like this. And I agree.
However, and it's a big however, the incidence of such abuse is higher by orders of magnitude in Muslim societies than in western democracies. That's the point.
And as a Catholic could you answer this question: Why is it that in Muslim countries Christians are at best tolerated, at worst attacked and marginalised? Whay can't you build a church in the 'purest' (titter) Islamic country of all, Saudi Arabia?
And finally, why is it that EVERWHERE, when Muslims reach a certain tipping point of the population, inter-communal violence and troubles take off?
And may I make a closing suggestion. Ask your awesome Muslim friends whether they believe a woman should be stoned for adultery or whether a convert from Islam to Christianity should be killed? If they say no, they're either lying or they're not Muslims!
Clearly you are not a fan of muslims for whatever reason. However I say again, nowhere in the article does it say that the family in question was muslim so I fail to see how you can justify your 'Muslim bashing' in this case.
@tonycobh
Rightly or wrongly, Sharia law states that both people found guilty of adultery should be stoned, not just the woman although I conceed this seems to vary by country.... http://www.religioustolerance.org/isl_adul2.htm
So they BOTH get stoned to death? Ah well, that's ok then.
Oh so you don't have any insight into this case. . Interesting that you inferred that this is generally a Muslim problem and more interesting that you would wager as such.
You may be right but at this stage it is just in your imagination.
But you sit and moan about intolerance of others... The best you can do is to tell how much you traveled (which means that you have money and you live in a cute little protestant/white/educated area) or lived in a "multicultural" area before, without mentioning why you ran away from that area like from fire..
Stop with this hypocrisy it just makes you look stupid...