Posted on 09/27/2007 2:03:48 AM PDT by Stoat
Jake Stedman: Claims he was beaten by immigrant with a pipe
A boy of ten who claims to have been attacked by a Slovakian woman with an iron bar could be charged with inciting racial hatred, it emerged last night.
Jake Stedman admitted that the woman hit him after he threw a berry at her and told her to 'go back to her own country'.
As a result, the boy - who was left with two black eyes - could become the youngest person in the country ever to be charged with the offence.
A police source said: "There have been allegations that he used racist language and it is necessary for us to investigate the claims."
The Slovakian woman involved, 35, was arrested and could face assault charges.
Jake, a white English pupil, attends Luton Junior School in Chatham, Kent. The school is so riven by racial tension after an influx of Slovakian and other eastern-European children that four police patrol the gates every day.
On Saturday, one week after the alleged assault, two teenage girls were arrested for throwing stones at and abusing a Slovakian man just yards from the school.
Locals believe it may have been a revenge attack.
Police said there had been 13 race-related incidents in the area in six months.
One resident, English mother Candice Smith, 30, claimed her son William had twice been chased and threatened by Slovakian children and their parents.
But Slovakian father David Feri, 24, said English parents were teaching their children racism.
Jake Stedman was found in a pool of blood after insulting the woman in her 20s, who is believed to have a child at the same primary school.
He says she chased him down an alleyway before repeatedly striking him on the head and back with the 2ft pipe as he cowered on the floor, leaving him with two black eyes.
His mother, Amanda Stedman, 29, from Chatham, Kent, said: "I came running out the house and saw him lying in a pool of blood crying.
"He was completely in shock - he's just a little boy.
"I know he can misbehave and he's easily led but for this to happen is outrageous."
Police were standing guard at Luton Junior School in Chatham at leaving time last night in an attempt to prevent racial tensions in the area rising further.
Parents angrily confronted four officers outside the school gates over the incident, which took place a week last Saturday.
A number said an increasing number of Slovak families in the area had led to friction with British parents.
About a third of around 400 pupils at the school are believed to be Slovakian-born.
British children had complained of being bullied by the Slovakian pupils, who they said had told them: "We only play with our own kind."
One parent at the school, who did not wish to be named, said: "When the parents come and collect their children, the Slovakians stand on one side of the playground and we stand on the other.
"It is a bit like a stand-off."
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'Outrageous': Amanda Stedman expresses shock to police
Another, mother- of-three Carla Spanton, said parents are already pulling their children out of the school following a large intake of Slovakian pupils over the summer.
"There's been trouble ever since," she said. "Our kids are being threatened with having their throats slit.
"It's happening every day but no one is taking any notice.
"This used to be a good school but it's not any more." Father-of-one Shane Treeby added: "The trouble is going to spill over and it's going to happen soon.
"There's been a load of attacks recently in and around the school with gangs of Slovakians going round beating up the local kids.
"That boy getting hit was just one example, but there's stabbings and all sorts round here which is not getting reported." Police last night confirmed they had made an arrest in connection with the alleged pipe attack.
Chief Inspector Peter Wedlake, of Medway Police, said officers would remain on duty outside the school.
He added: "We won't tolerate racially-motivated offences, whoever they are committed by."
A statement issued by Medway Council on behalf of the school said: "Community cohesion is a shared responsibility for us all.
"Medway schools are typically happy and calm places where children from different backgrounds learn together and get on well.
"We work closely with the police, community support officers and the wider community to play our part in providing good race relations among pupils, parents and the wider community."
The incident comes after last week's admission by police that the influx of immigrants to Britain is placing a huge strain on resources.
Leading the warnings was Cambridgeshire's chief constable Julie Spence.
She said the surge in arrivals from Eastern Europe has meant an increasing bill for translation services for victims, witnesses and criminals who often speak little or no English.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis backed the calls for tighter immigration procedures, saying Labour's 'opendoor approach' is to blame for the problems.
Asked the Badger.
And we think our immigration problem is bad - just wait and see how the flood gates overflow if the Dems get the ‘universal’ health coverage they want...
What race are Slovaks?
I am not a weasel............
C'mon. Badger! Don't y'all know your kinfolks?
“We won’t tolerate racially-motivated offences, whoever they are committed by.”
BUT THEY ARE HAPPY TO TOLERATE PHYSICAL ATTACKS ON WHITE BOYS!
This is what it has come to. The authorities favor having white children beat up and get real upset over a few WORDS!
Yes I DO know them! That's why I try to avoid them at all times.................
I can testify that this isn't all one-way traffic, since I myself moved in the other direction last month, albeit only for a week: when I was mightily amused to find that I'd been preceded by that totemic British institution of our times, the 24-hour Tesco. Have to confess that my motive for being there was to climb in the Tatras rather than meet Slovaks: but since half the population of the country seemed to have had the same idea at the same time (never seen such crowded mountains - Helvellyn on August Bank Holiday is nothing to this), had plenty of opportunity to observe the locals. Whom, I must say, I found perfectly charming and not much distinguishable from your average Brit, though a trifle unreconstructed in the matter of smoking. Since I gather that Bratislava has recently become a favourite destination for that lamentable British rite of passage, the stag party, I can well understand that the Slovak view of my compatriots could be rather less benign than I might wish it.
The ability of a ten year old child to identify the assailant as "someone who should go back to where they came from" combined with the police invoking race laws suggests that the assailant was nonwhite.
Gypsy perhaps? The article was studiously careful in avoiding such specifics, as was the photographer.
Yes, that's for sure.
Maybe racism is being used instead of 'ethnic', to mean prejudices against other nationalities? My grandparents were all immigrants about a century ago, amongst thousands of East Europeans, an influx. My grandmother was Slovak and married a Russian. They experienced a variety of ethnic slurs and discriminations in the new country, but came here legally and learned the language and were happy to be here. Still, it was so difficult for my grandmother to find work to support her children after her husband's young death, that she changed the last name to an Italian sounding name and moved temporarily to NYC in search of work, which she found. It seems it's the influx of a large group unmotivated to assimilate that is causing the ethnic tensions.
All excellent points. Although the definition of 'race' has been undergoing cataclysmic (and many would say unscientific) changes, due in large measure to the politics of achieving racial spoils, one of the few specifics offered up in this article was that a ten year old child was able to quickly identify an immigrant woman, and other statements in the article suggest it's easily done in this matter as well. Perhaps they are more dark-skinned Gypsies? The article is careful to avoid such specifics so it's all a guessing game.
I'm sorry to hear of the troubles that your family has had; hopefully all is well for you now.
"sigh"
I'm about two feet long from nose to tail, I have small black beady eyes, am covered with fur and have 'occasional' flea issues. I suppose that this means we're not an E-Harmony match?
"sad"
Outside of Long Island and much of New Jersey...
With all due respect, I would wish to suggest that we stoats are a cut above the common weasel. Weasels are frequently no more than garden-variety Marxist trash who sit all day in coffeehouses in their "Che!" t-shirts, complaining about how they live in a police state / Theocracy which doesn't allow them to have any fun. They don't bathe and their women are hideous.
We stoats, on the other hand, are usually hard-Right America-loving Conservatives who like steaks, an occasional whisky, vivacious ladies and guns.
Ah, here it is.
English girl barred from Government job...because she is wrong kind of white
it’s amazing how many ex-brits live in socal.
i met another today.
Slovaks aren’t white people?
News to me.
Cream? Peach? Beige? lol
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Hopefully you'll be able to direct at least some of them to Free Republic :-)
TERNE ČHAVE it's only Rom'n'Roll...
Maybe similar to what's being discussed in the article, maybe not.
The writer doesn't give any clues, so all we can do is guess (unless an enterprising Brit Freeper wants to go to that school and surrounding neighborhood and take some photos)
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