British police launched an investigation of a 10-year-old boy because he used the word gay in an e-mail.
A father criticised a police force today for launching an investigation after his ten-year-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend “gay” in an email.
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Mr Rawlinson, 41, said: “I could not believe what I was hearing when the officers told me.
“They told me they considered it a very serious offence, I thought they were joking at first.”
Police Inspector Nick Bailey said:
“The use of the word gay would imply this is homophobic but we would be hard-pushed to say this is a homophobic crime.”
Surely bringing the full force of the Cheshire Constabulary to bear on this heinous homophobic criminal is the only way to stop him, once and for all. Even better - shoot him several times while he’s already on the floor, like what happened to the Brazilian fellow that decided to run from plainclothes people who pulled guns on him.