Sydney - Public prosecutors in Australia have recommended that a 10-year-old boy be charged later this month with manslaughter after a six-year-old drowned. A summons has been served on the boy to answer the charge in a court in Sydney on September 21st, police said yesterday.
A Juvenile Justice spokesman, Mr Ross Parker, said he believed no one as young had faced such a charge in the state of New South Wales. Sgt Steve Foster said the boy was the oldest of a group of children present when Corey Davis drowned in south-west Sydney on March 2th. Corey Davis, who could not swim and was afraid of water, was allegedly pushed into the Georges River while in the company of the group.
Meanwhile, Swedish police have revealed that they suspect three children under the age of 12 of the sex murder of a fouryear old boy in a tragedy that has rocked a small Swedish community and gripped the country.
Prosecutors in Chicago dropped murder charges yesterday against two boys, aged seven and eight, saying new evidence had raised doubts they were the killers of an 11-year-old girl. --(Reuters)