Jake Stedman: Claims he was beaten by immigrant with a pipe
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.
Now if the Brits, and Slovaks could only turn their attention to their real enemy, the muslims, why they’d have it made.
Indeed! Hopefully it won't take another terror attack to make that happen "sigh"
Yup, and the two female officers look to be in junior high.
They may well be.
Revealed The hijab-wearing 17-year-old Muslim girl hired as a community police officer (U.K.)
Good grief!
Yes, young British lads have not endeared themselves to
the residents of Bratislava, but have indeed become the scourge of the city.
They show up on a Friday afternoon, get drunk as fast as they can and prowl the streets of old town, usually in groups of 4 to 6, laughing like hyenas. peeing and puking in the streets and fountains, and damaging monuments.
You are right about the Tatras. They can be quite crowded
with not only Slovaks, but many Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, and Austrians.
Outdoor activities are very popular here with the entire country being a maze of hiking and bicycling trails.
My last hike, 4 weeks ago was 30 KM. Come back when you can stay longer.
LOL> I happen to have an in-law from Long Island. Hispanic too. She's about as white-looking as anyone around my part of Wisconsin. Which considering this area is heavily populated with Scandinavians makes her pretty light-skinned. I'm against all racial classifications.
A kind of weasel, so distant cousin of a badger. In winter they are referred to as ermines. Nice fur coats, IMHO!
Oops, I see you caught on. When it comes to the weasel family, ferrets are neat pets, otters are very entertaining, skunks are to be avoided, and wolverines are not at all nice!
Well, the term has become so corrupted over the past 25 years, much of it from polltical correctness crap.
I am active on a Slovak forum that has many Brits, one of which is a pure troll who post under many names, and always to prevaricate.
One time when I was complaining about the British stag party
kids, he called me a racist. It is a bit strange, considering that I am Scotch and Irish... go figure.
With PC, if you say anything derogatory about ANYONE, you are called a racist.
I am from the old school that recognizes Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid. Of course there are numerous subdivisions.
LOL!.....8^)
One can recognize "racial" subdivisions just for scientific interest, but what in the end is the point? In America (and I assume many Western democracies) we are supposed to be judging people by the content of their character and not their "race" in the words of Martin Luther King.
I realize the left has a huge interest in maintaining "racial" divisions, but conservatives should be leading the fight to get away from such classifications. The recent incident in England is such an example of twisted reasoning and ridiculous racial terminology to haul some poor ten year old before the court to achieve "racial justice". The whole thing is absurd on the face of it. So as regards the efforts of liberals to foster "racial" classifications I say BAH!
The West’s reinvention of Babel seems to be going quit well.
“Gypsy perhaps? The article was studiously careful in avoiding such specifics, as was the photographer.”
I am a Slovak. I read about the attack on brusselsjournal.com. Then I googled the poor boy’s name and found this forum - among many others.
As some people mentioned - the media avoided any information about race or ethnic background of the woman. In Slovakia there are 5 000 000 inhabitants of which there are 500 000 Roma people. I don’t care if someone calls me a racist but the fact is that coexistence with Roma is more than difficult. There are artists and educated people among them but the big majority live in their own world. We do not mix, they do not mix. For centuries. Here is an introduction to this problem by a man who would be considered by many people in Slovakia to be too soft:
http://ociganoch.jinde.cz/About.html
As I said, thanks to Political Correctness in British media I cannot be sure if the woman is Roma. But I can at least guess. Here are two quite different versions of what happened:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483974&in_page_id=1770
http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3010217.ece
In the Independent article you can find this “It is very hard not to conclude there is some racism behind this. We do the same work that everyone else does – picking crops, working in pack houses. But Slovakians have darker skin than other Eastern Europeans. I don’t hear of Poles being abused in the street. But often I hear of it from my Slovakian friends.”
Well, you certainly wouldn’t be able to tell apart a Pole/Slovak/Russian judging by the colour of skin. It is as if you said native Swedish are darker then Danes.
Also I cannot imagine a white Slovak accusing another white person of racism against them. Doesn’t make sense. That’s what we get accused of when we say something against Roma.
Also “an increasing number of Slovak families in the area had led to friction with British parents”. What? Almost all white Slovaks who go to Britain are young singles who want to earn some money before they come back home to buy a flat/house and start a family. Slovak Roma are known to travel Western Europe to collect welfare benefits wherever possible. The more family members you have with you the better.
Roma or not that woman is either a psycho or a criminal and should be put to jail for a long time. Accusing the boy borders with idiocy. I am also not happy the British media never mentioned the ethnic/racial background of the woman. Closing one’s eyes does not solve any problem. Even less so for Roma because if Slovaks find out what name Roma get them abroad the deep divisions get deeper.
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