Blog # 4

Just a year after the death of Jamie Bulger, in the Norwegian city of Trondheim, a murder case simiular to Jamie's happened. However the two six year old boys that performed the attack were realised without charge. Five year old Silje Raedergard was attacked by two six year old boys and left to die in the snow. The outcome of the murder was very different for the boys who killed this defenceless young child. On the 15th October 1994 Silje Raedergard was playing football with her friends. The little girl had played with these two boys many times before. However this time was different, the two boys became extremly agressive towards Silje. After deciding to play 'snow castles' the boys became rough, they stripped the little girl and threw stones at her, the little girl fell unconscious and the two boys became scared and ran away. The ordeal shocked the surrounding locals who lived in the city of Trondheim. There had only been two deaths in the six years before the little girls murder. The change in the way that the authorities dealt wth this situation was shocking, the little boys were left to roam free after the terrible act that they had performed. How can an act such as this go so unoticed and be so callasley handled? Even though this story resulted in some press nothing was done. the little boys were treated as the victims. The young boys were allowed to return to school within a week of the attack. The only attempt to even talk to the boys about the ordeal was to counseal them for four years.