9 Month Old Booked on Attempted Murder in Pakistan

[Senator Clay Davis]

???

Sadly, this isn't an Onion story.

A 9-month-old boy accused of attempted murder in Pakistan appeared in court with his grandfather on Thursday, according to local media reports.

The child and more than two dozen others were accused of throwing rocks with intent to kill police during a raid on a neighborhood in Lahore, the Express Tribune notes. Authorities were reportedly cutting off gas and electricity supplies to the houses of residents who hadn’t paid their bills.

Video footage from the hearing showed the boy being fingerprinted while sitting on his grandfather’s lap. He was then granted interim bail by Judge Rafaqat Ali’s court. The boy is expected to return to court April 12.

Chaudhry Irfan Sadiq, the family's lawyer, told Agence-France Presse the charges should have been dropped immediately, as the minimum age for criminal responsibility in Pakistan is generally 12.

"The court should have simply referred the minor's case to the High Court to drop the charges against the innocent child and acquit him from the case," Sadiq said. "This case also exposes the incompetence of our police force and the way they are operating."

The officer who filed the report against the 9-month-old has since been suspended, reports note.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5092253.html

[Gundo]

Damn not even Texas would do that.

[nik-]

haha, I remember seeing this the other day and was going to make a thread and forgot. Thanks for posting this.

Pakistan is awesome. In terms of the scope of its ####tiness.

[Puppet Guy]

I knew it - the toddlers are organizing! I always suspected that mine were plotting something, this is proof of a wider conspiracy!

[habernac]

This is in a country that is a nuclear power. Awesome.

[Coach]

9 months. Is throwing even possible?

[tvp2003]

[Schraderbrau]

So much for 2 minutes on the time out chair........

[Muta]

That whole region, including Pakistan and beyond, has a loooong social, political and economic development curve ahead of them still. Stories like this just prove that.

[Wood]

Its hilarious that these are grown men, being completely serious about booking a baby for attempted murder

The guy fingerprinting the kid must have felt like an idiot

[Tyler]

Surely democracy and Christianity could fix this

[Coach]

Pretty sure democracy can happen without any religious affiliations at all.

Wouldn't that be nice?

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Tyler

Surely democracy and Christianity could fix this

Education.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by Tyler

Surely democracy and Christianity could fix this

That's the issue. Religeon is too engrained in the state. All it takes is for someone who is muslim to accuse someone of desecrating the quaran and that person is basicly guilty unless proven innocent. It's even worse being a Christian in a islamic state such as Pakistan.

My wife's familly immigrated here when she was 9 and things have been getting worse ever since. A friend of mine recently went back and he said it is staggering how bad things have gotten. You can't even walk around with a cellphone without a pistol being shoved in your face by 13 year olds and robbed.

[Doodlebug]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

That's the issue. Religeon is too engrained in the state. All it takes is for someone who is muslim to accuse someone of desecrating the quaran and that person is basicly guilty unless proven innocent. It's even worse being a Christian in a islamic state such as Pakistan.

My wife's familly immigrated here when she was 9 and things have been getting worse ever since. A friend of mine recently went back and he said it is staggering how bad things have gotten. You can't even walk around with a cellphone without a pistol being shoved in your face by 13 year olds and robbed.

What city?

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Doodlebug

What city?

Muggabad

[Swift]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

My wife's familly immigrated here when she was 9 and things have been getting worse ever since. A friend of mine recently went back and he said it is staggering how bad things have gotten. You can't even walk around with a cellphone without a pistol being shoved in your face by 13 year olds and robbed.

Pfft, you think that's bad? Last time I was there, a 9 month old began throwing rocks at me.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by Doodlebug

What city?

Kirachi

[alan21]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

Kirachi

Ive shot countless noobs there with my scar.