An
eight-year-old boy was beaten to death with a rock after trying to protect his
sister from being raped.
According to
the police, a teenager approached the siblings who were playing outside their
home in Richmond, Virginia, and sexually assaulted the 12-year-old girl.
Witnesses
say the attacker also threw a rock at her younger brother’s head as he defended
his sister.
Neighbours
alerted police when they saw the girl, naked and covered in blood, running out
of the woods near her house.
Paramedics
pronounced the boy dead at the scene.
The victim
initially described her attacker as a white male with scraggly facial hair,
however police discovered she was threatened into providing a false
description.
Police have
now arrested a black teenager suspected of the attack.
Pastor of
the local church, Dr Theodore Hughey, described the siblings as ‘good kids’.
‘You never
saw one without the other. He was like her guardian,’ he said.
Neighbour
Sudan Aunu said of the boy’s actions: ‘His sister is alive today because of
him.’
The local
community has been left in shock, with several vigils being held outside the
children’s home.
Richmond
police major Scott Booth said they are ‘trying to put this thing together’, but
would not comment on the seriousness of the girl’s injuries
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