9-Month-Old Boy Charged With Attempted Murder In Pakistan
A 9-month-old Pakistani boy has been charged along with the rest of his family with attempted murder, according to reports.
Musa Khan was photographed last week crying as his grandfather held him for fingerprinting. He was with his family during a protest in a Lahore slum that turned violent in February. Police say the boy, who was 7 months old at the time, threw stones at them.
The New York Times reports:
"Slum residents threw stones at gas company workers who had tried to disconnect households that failed to pay their bills, leading the police to charge an entire family with attempted murder, including Musa.
"The absurdity of the case became apparent last Thursday when the screaming child was produced in court, and had to be comforted with a milk bottle as a court official recorded his thumbprint.
" 'He does not even know how to pick up his milk bottle properly — how can he stone the police?' his grandfather Muhammad Yasin said to news service reporters outside the courthouse."