Boy convicted for hitting his little sister
Published: 29 May 12 08:50 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/41100/20120529/
A spat between two siblings in southern Sweden has resulted in an assault conviction for a 15-year-old boy who was duly reported to police by his younger sister after he hit her in the face.
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In court, the girl admitted that she had hurled a number of verbal insults at her older brother before unleashing a flurry of kicks and shoves, the local Skånska Dagbladet newspaper reported.
According to the boy, his little sister started the fight by making fun of his girlfriend.
Having sustained a number of kicks from the little girl, the boy responded by punching his sister twice in the face before their mother intervened to put a stop to the altercation.
In court, the boy defended his violent response, claiming he was acting in self-defence.
But the district court rejected the 15-year-old's self-defence claims, citing the boy's own admission that the kicks from his little sister didn't hurt that much.
While an assault conviction normally carries a prison sentence, on account of the boy's age and the fact that he hadn't had any previous run-ins with the law, the court opted for a more lenient sentence of a fine.
According to the paper, the siblings explained to the court that they hadn't spoken to one another for a week following the fight.
However, time had since mended the rift and they had once again become friends, they told the court.
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Why couldn't the mother who was there not handle the situation like a parent does?.
And the father should have done even more...
Next time the boy may not be 15 and the judge may not be that lenient. She seem to trust the court system more than her own family.
Please please, watch such diabolic language.
If I were this 15 y/o boy, I would never trust my own mother and my sister again in my future life. - I might wait 3 years more, but when 18 and of full age, I would thank them for my criminal record, move away and forget about them forever.
The mother - father not mentioned as usual in a feminist society - is very much guilty too, as she should never tolerate such a bad behavior of her younger daughter against her older son. Why did she not interfere earlier in this dispute?
The court is a joke, basically this conviction means, that a girl is allowed to insult any male (even her brother, father, teacher etc.) verbally, make scornful fun out of his girlfriend, kick and shove him and there is nothing what a man, age and relationship irrelevant, can do about.
Strange society!
The 'Nanny State' has gone too far. I am however happy to say that the little one that we hold dear has her eyes open and is not SO effected by the edicts of the government social activists and will be graduating from gymnasium next month.
In fact, this darling has in a beating around the bush sort of way explained to me that many of the children like herself recognize the indoctrination procedures, reject them and play along with regard to school assignments and tests so that they can be recorded with high grades.
The 'Nanny State' is not run by the best and the brightest and I am very happy to have learned that even teenagers are able to work the leftist indoctrination education system to achieve high grade point averages. Teenagers are able to recognize that activists that are presented as instructors are not the same as educators. Leftists are fresh meat for these kids but the leftists still hold the bureaucracy.
In the sibling case as outlined by thelocal article it is clear that the younger sister recognized how easy it is to manipulate the feeble infrastructure the 'Nanny State' has erected just to screw with her older brother in a big way. There will be a correction in the future. History tells us this.
This is a joke!
The court seems to be applying pre-feminism logic to this case: i.e., the girl is allowed to taut, insult and physically abuse the male, but he is not allowed to respond.
The kid should not have bashed his sister, but it is clearly a sign that "masculine oblige" with respect to women is being lost in the feminist state. The parents should have settled the issue. The courts should have thrown the case back into the laps of the parents. But then this is another curious aspect to Swedish society--people not only allow government to run-rampant in their homes, they invite it to do so.
If she were my daughter, she would have some very heavy-duty grounding/tasks for the next year for taking family matters outside the family. My son would have been given similar punishment spiced with some heavy duty talk about why men do not use violence against women.
I wonder if Swedish parents really understand the consequences of abdicating their parental responsibility to the State. This is one of the most pathetic stories about Swedish culture I have ever read, and it bodes ill for a future in which men have no feelings of "masculine oblige" to protect women.
..... I was taught that a man NEVER under any circumstance uses his superior strength against a female. A man stands and takes it: the classic example being a male stoically taking a face-slap from a woman.
That's a ridiculous statement.
You better advice those violent females never to attack anybody. Good behavior applies not only for men, but for females as well.
The risk to be injured in case of self-defense is with the aggressor. The gender of the aggressor is irrelevant.
This case is a little tricky as it is between minor siblings of different age, but I see no reason why I should accept to be face-slapped by any unknown woman, who without any understandable reason - solely because of her bad mood - is attacking me while walking in the street...
But odd to me that, in a nation where corporal punishment is literally illegal, you get a sister physically attacking her older brother, and then her brother punching her twice in the face.
When I was young there was an unwritten rule that schoolyard fights never involved punches to the face, and mainly involved shoving around and maybe holding someone down to show who was in charge.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is not the last time we see one or both siblings in court.
#21 You just made my point. You obviously have no problem decking a woman--ergo, in this society "masculine oblige" is dying out. Whether it is noble or ignoble depends on ones view.
#22 et al: the girl picked up the phone and called the police, from that point the police and prosecution HAD NO CHOICE other than to look into the case, due to the legal principle of allmänt åtal I mentioned a couple of posts back.
What if the brother had sexually molested his sister, should the family have solved the matter themselves? Maybe give the brother some heavy-duty grounding, make him apologise and give the sister a stern warning about never taking family matters outside the family?
This word is much misused, a man who is refusing to give money to his wife is raping her financially, a person posting insults on a facebook account is face-raping, and we know even in USA about boys as young as 4 years old accused of sexual harassment. - There are also female rapist btw...
Yes, this girl was calling the police by phone and police had to investigate. But this is not the point. The point is that this girl was calling the police without informing her parents what she is doing. Just ignoring her parents.
Next time in case she is doing some nonsense like shoplifting a few items in a store, her brother should call the police to arrest the thief?
To suggest this brother could sexually molestering his younger sister is absurd. There is no indication at all that something like that happened during their dispute.
To blame for that all by my opinion is the mother of these 2 children. She failed to protect her son against verbal insults and kicks from her daughter.
That's a situation we need parents to interfere and not police and courts.
I really wonder, what Swedish court might do in case you reverse this situation. A younger brother is insulting verbally his older sister, kicking her and she response with 2 face-slaps. What will police do? Will she also be convicted in court? If yes, who will pay the fine?
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