Dirty Indian, go back to India: Six-year-old girl assaulted, hit in private parts in Ireland
The incident marks first case of racist assault on a child of Indian origin though a string of unprovoked attacks in the country have previously been reported against other Indians.
PTC News Desk: A six-year-old Indian origin girl was brutally assaulted by a group of boys outside her home in Waterford, Ireland, as they shouted, "Go back to India".
The incident marks first case of racist assault on a child of Indian origin though a string of unprovoked attacks in the country have previously been reported against other Indians.
The incident occurred on the evening of Monday, August 4, while the girl was playing outside her home with friends. According to her mother, the group involved included a girl around eight years old and several boys aged between 12 and 14.
The mother recounted that she had been watching her daughter play with the other children just outside their home. However, she briefly went inside to feed her 10-month-old son when he began crying. Although she tried to keep an eye on her daughter from indoors, she had to attend to the baby during that time.
One of her friends told her mother that a gang of boys older than them hit her on the private parts with a cycle and five of them punched her in her face, The Irish Mirror reported.
"She told me five of them punched her in the face. One of the boys pushed the bicycle wheel onto her private parts and it was really sore. They said the F word and 'Dirty Indian, go back to India. She told me today (Wednesday) they punched her neck and twisted her hair," the woman, who has been a nurse and living in Ireland for eight years and recently became an Irish citizen, told The Irish Mirror.