Stockholm - Two boys aged five and seven beat and strangled a four-year-old boy to death in Sweden, but will not face criminal charges because of their young age, police said yesterday.
The victim, called Kevin, died in August when a stick was held against his throat while he was lying on the ground during a fight over a toy. Police Commissioner Rolf Sandberg said the cause of his death was strangulation.
The two boys admitted to kicking and beating Kevin during questioning two months after the incident. "They told us what they had done. But they never said they regretted it."
The two boys, who are in an institution, will undergo psychiatric treatment.