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To: Road Walker who wrote (235504)	6/3/2005 1:12:27 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571815

Children try to hang boy Bruce Wilson London 03jun05 A GROUP of children aged 11 and 12, including two girls, abducted and tried to hang a five-year-old boy in a wood in west Yorkshire, shocked police said yesterday. It is believed the boy was strung up on the bough of a tree and is thought to have survived only because the rope either broke or slipped. Two of the boys were released last night but the remaining three -- two girls and a boy -- are facing charges of attempted murder. The case is certain to further inflame concerns in Britain about a youthful "yob" culture, with too many pre-teens seemingly out of control. Anthony Mark Hinchliffe suffered horrific ligature-type marks around his neck after being abducted from his mother's garden in Dewsbury, police said. He was apparently hanged in nearby woods in a spot known as Devils Ditch. After somehow getting free, he was found, confused and distressed, by cousin Tracey Jones, 22. The alleged crime brought back terrible memories for Britons of the abduction and murder of toddler James Bulger by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, in 1993. The two were convicted and detained. Both have been released and live under new identities. Five-year-old Anthony is described as a lively, playful but small boy. Police initially arrested two girls, aged 11 and 12, and three boys, two aged 12 and one 11. Three more children were being questioned. Details only started to emerge 24 hours after Anthony was found with the rope marks on his neck and severe bruising on his body, as if he had been beaten or resisted as the children tried to hang him. He had been playing with a local girl he knew in his mother's front yard, not far from the woods. He played there regularly and never strayed, a neighbour said. Tracey Jones said later the boy had been taken by the girl he was playing with, and she had met up with a group of other children she described as a gang of kids. Police believe they then took him to the woods. Residents painted a grim picture of those woods. They said they were a twilight haunt for pre-teens who smoked and probably drank alcohol there. Few locals went after dark. "The minute he saw me he burst into tears," Ms Jones said. "He was shook up, dazed. I said, 'What the hell happened?' And he said, 'Some boys and girls tried to tie me to a tree'." Ms Jones said she took the boy home to his mother, Terri Brown, who confronted the mother of one of the girls alleged to have abducted him before calling police. She described the scene as hysterical. Supt Andy Brennan of the west Yorkshire police described Anthony's injuries as "quite horrific". Child psychologists will question Anthony. Police expect the questioning to take many days as the boy recovers. heraldsun.news.com.au