Two Children Die Imitating Hanging Execution
 

Did you every play the "pretend to hang ourselves" game as kid?


BOMBAY (Reuters) - India's first execution in 13 years has claimed an additional toll of at least two children dead in mishaps as they re-enacted the highly publicized hanging of a man convicted of raping and murdering a schoolgirl.

Two weeks ago, 41-year-old Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged in the eastern city of Calcutta after 13 years on death row.

On Sunday, 14-year-old Prem Gaekwad died when he tied one end of a rope around his neck and swung the other end on a ceiling fan in his Bombay home, in an apparent re-enactment.

"The boy's father told us Prem was a very bright but curious kid and kept asking questions about how Dhananjoy would be hanged," said assistant police inspector Dilip Suryawanshi.

"Dhananjoy was the top news on all TV channels for so many days and Prem would watch very closely."

Last week, a 12-year-old girl died in the eastern state of West Bengal, when she tried to demonstrate for her younger brother how Chatterjee was executed, newspapers said.

And a 10-year-old boy in the same state almost died last week when he and his friends acted out the execution, taking the roles of Chatterjee, the hangman, a doctor and the prison warden.

"Children have a natural curiosity about anything out of the ordinary," psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria told Reuters. "Also, several newspapers and TV channels had given detailed sketches of execution by hanging, making it easier for kids to imitate."

Jesus that sucks.

Yeah, that is pretty bad. :(

Any jokes about evolution at work would probably be in bad taste now, huh?

Thought so.

That suck hard timez! :(

Ok, but how fucking stupid are the parents? Your kid is 14, and he hasn't been taught not to do dumb shit like that yet?

I'm all for stringing up mom and dad

Horrible. :(

Darwin at work there, to the max

That's not stupidity of the parents (although, since intelligence is largely genetic, the parents will probably be pretty stupid too), it's stupidity of the kid. If at 14 you don't understand that re-enacting an execution can be somewhat dangerous, you are more than just a bit mentally challenged.

Honestly, I think this particular kid was more suicidal than curious though. His interest in the execution is a bit of a giveaway.

Oh good, I'm not the only one who thought this.

yes i am laughing.

at 14 i was trying to have sex, had A's in school and wasnt running around playing stupid like this.

if i didnt kill myself at 14 its easy enough for others not too.

those kids are fucking dumb.

good bye

this had ZERO to do with parents.

you should know better at 14

thats's too bad, just a few days ago, a horrible news flashed on television about a 1 yr old baby hung and died due to playing that stuff, I was confuse if the 1 yr old baby is somewhat corious or there were other reason behind :(

I gotta agree with Fletch on this one. A 14 year old kid has enough sense not to hang themselves or atleast I thought so...

dito.

India is going to be following the US' past examples and will now ban rope because of this dreadful act of stupidity on the childs part.

We must protect the stupid.. err children.

Regards,

Lee

:1orglaugh

At 14 they have their own brain cells or lack thereof...darwinism, I'm afraid.

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a 1 year old accidently hung itself trying to re-enact a hanging execution? I highly doubt that.

As far as the kids in India, thinning of the herd, it is probably a good thing that they did not get old enough to raise their own dumbass kids

nope, never crossed my mind

And yet India still has over 1 billion people there.

Highly doubt that? I ABSOLUTELY doubt that. If a 1 year old baby was found hanging, he/she was murdered.

I try to give people the benefit of the doubt

I agree with Fletch. At 14 years old you should know better.