Gran stabs boy over remote
A Russian woman has been jailed for six years for repeatedly stabbing her young grandson for not fetching the television remote control for her, prosecutors said at the weekend. The 51-year-old "stabbed her five-year-old grandson three times in the stomach and chest with a kitchen knife after he did not pass her the remote control", said the regional prosecutor's office in the Siberian Krasnoyarsk region.The woman had been drinking but was found to be sane, it said. The child survived and told investigators that he was attacked because "he couldn't find the remote".The serious injuries sustained by the boy have left him with liver damage. The incident occurred in February and the woman was handed the jail term after a trial in a local court.In the first six months of the year about 2000 people were killed in domestic violence in Russia, according to the statistics presented to the Kremlin...
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