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Parents of white teen accused of hanging black child claim it was an accident
On August 28, an 8-year-old biracial boy was playing with a group of teenagers in the small town of Claremont, New Hampshire. Soon, however, their games took a dangerous turn. Somehow, the boywho is half blackwound up with a rope around his neck, hanging from a tree. He was rushed to the hospital. That same day, the boys mother posted photographs of his swollen neck on Facebook, and soon the story story went viral.
The boys family alleges the hanging was a deliberate, racist act, and that one 13-year-old boywho is whitewas the instigator. The older boys, they allege, left the 8-year-old hanging and ran away, and the police, they claim, did not initially take the investigation seriously.
Related: Police slow to investigate bi-racial boys hanging, family claims
In an exclusive interview, with Newsweek, which has been edited for brevity, the teenage boys parents, Rhianna Larkin, 33 and Eric Sullivan, 32, tell their side of the story. In a tearful exchange, Larkin says what happened was a tragic accident, not a racially-motivated crimeand that since it occurred, people have threatened not only their lives, but the lives of their children.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/parents-of-white-teen-accused-of-hanging-black-child-claim-it-was-an-accident/
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)my ass
Phoenix61
(17,013 posts)I did work a child abuse case of a young boy who was hanged. He survived with no permanent injuries. He was playing on a rope swing. There was a slip knot in the rope and the children would put their legs through it and sit and swing. The young boy wanted to get out of the swing and managed to pull it up his torso and get one arm out before the knot tightened. Fortunately, his aunt looked out the window and saw him. Interestingly, the police assumed the worst until it was proven to be an accident.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Phoenix61
(17,013 posts)It happened in Alabama and the cops were white.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)And, like most of these Nazi assholes, they end up crying when they get caught.
Initech
(100,099 posts)Shit, lock em up and throw away the key!