Police in sometime-U.S. ally Pakistan arrested a nine month old infant, along with his family, for an alleged assassination attempt on the cops who raided the family home. The cops went on to charge the infant with assault, claiming he pelting them with stones. This is not a story from the Onion. The case actually went to court, where the baby cried throughout the trial as lawyers of both sides argued the case. The baby also was visibly upset as his grandfather was made to hold his thumb to dip it in ink and put its print on the bail bonds, as the tot could not sign the documents himself. At other points the defendent was quieter, busy suckling on his pacifier and bottle. The perp is pictured above. The judge judiciously granted interim bail to the accused infant and adjourned the hearing until April 12. At some point a more rational government employee took notice of the case in the local media and intervened, actually punishing the police officers involved and dropping charges against the child. The child, not yet able to talk, made no comment. The incident began when police raided the family home to cut off the gas to the house for non-payment. The family patriarch and two older relatives did indeed throw stones at the cops, and attacked them with wooden clubs, causing the police to run for their lives. Under Pakistani law, it is common in such cases to simply charge the entire extended family, men, women and apparently, children. The cops, in their defense, claim they didn’t bother to find out the extended family included an infant. There was no explanation offered as to why, after learning they had arrested a baby, the charges were not immediately dropped. The U.S. has given Pakistan over $7.5. billion in aid over the last five years, almost $21 billion since 2002.
You do realize 9 month olds can't walk, talk, and can barely sit up. Stop trolling this is false, you expect me to believe he threw rocks?
They claimed that the baby was going against the state and was harassing the officer And since the judge didn't know about the 9 year old in court he released the baby and the officer was relieved of duty Btw this is old
The child not yet able to talk, made no comment that's just sad. I've heard that usa jury sends innocents people to jail because CA of prisons needs more prisonners.
From what I gather the whole family was arrested so they included the 9mth old in the arrest, its not like they came to the door, handcuffed the baby and took it away lol
a 9 month old can sit on it's own, can walk and can say a few words and can hold things in their hands and I'm sure some can sort of throw.
This story is indeed true I watched the news and the baby was in fact arrested for hiring the police with his bottle