[Sofa King]

"Jesus Hater"?

Doesn't really sound like something a bunch of children would call someone.

[Capriole]

I agree. Kids don't call each other things like "Jesus hater." At this age they call each other far more obscene things. They do harass each other on the way home from school--my ten-year-old regularly gets into it with other kids--but religious differences aren't an issue because frankly, at that age, kids hardly know the difference between Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, American Indian, Hindu, and Shintoist, all of which they have at our multiculti neighborhood school. Anyway, what kid is going to have rotten apples in his lunch? And where would rotten apples come from at this time of year, when apples are just ripening? The whole story is fishy.

I think this is a lot of self-dramatization on the part of the boy's mother or the boy himself. Kids make things up, too. I'll bet the kid got into a fight due to some perfectly ordinary personality conflict and they've blown it up into a hate crime.

I'm going to think up some new religion I can belong to so I can claim victim status and file suit every time somebody looks at me the wrong way. Might make some money.

[Bonaparte]

"Doesn't really sound like something a bunch of children would call someone."

It doesn't ring true to me, either. I smell a rat.

[thathamiltonwoman]

I don't believe it. "Jesus hater" just doesn't sound like something that would come out of a kids mouth. If there are bruises on this kid I think the police would be wise to look at Mommy witch.