A five year-old boy in the French town of Uckange has stabbed his ten year-old sister with a kitchen knife following an argument over a Nintendo DS, Le Post reports.
The incident occurred [[link]] on Saturday night, and was prompted by the sister’s refusal to [[link]] allow her brother to play with her Nintendo DS. Upset over this, the boy took a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the chest. The children’s mother was awakened by the girl’s screams [[link]] and she was rushed to hospital, where she remains (although her condition is not listed as critical).
There are further reports from a follow-up story by Le Post of the boy citing “inspiration” from a Power Rangers game that involved throwing knives, and of the family suffering from a history of domestic violence at the hands of their estranged father.
A 5 ans, il poignarde sa soeur parce qu’elle ne veut pas lui prêter sa console de jeux [Le Post]
UPDATE – Oh dear. This gets worse. Surgeons have determined that after operating on the poor girl “a child of 5 could not have made a blow of such force”. Turns out the mother is suspected of stabbing her own daughter, and has been remanded in custody. The boy/DS thing was just a cover-up story.
So sad.