In what some people on social media are calling attempted murder, a teenage boy in Cork was brutally assaulted on Saturday night in a vicious beating and stabbing attack by a number of other youths.
The incident took place around 10:30pm on Saturday night. It’s understood that the boy is currently being treated in Cork University Hospital and is said to be in a stable condition after he received a bad beating to his face and stab wounds to his back.
A video of the animalistic attack has gone viral on social media and has left some people ill from the savagery it depicts.
So far, Gardaí have arrested one youth in connection, with what many who have witnessed the attack on film, describe as attempted murder.
During the video of the attack, the boy can be seen with blood across his face and in a dazed state while lying on the ground as one youth turns him to his side and begins to repeatedly stab and slash his back, the attacker even takes the care to lift his jacket first so his blade can penetrate the child as deep as possible.
The young boy is stabbed in the lower back, roughly where his liver is or possibly the lung area.
The attack is filmed and narrated by another youth who appears to have a London accent and it also shows a young girl attempting to shield the boy from the thugs, begging them to stop, but the youth filming wants to get her out of the way so he can continue to shout “look at all the blood, fam”.
In an unrelated incident last week, a Limerick teenager was savagely beaten by youths who appear to be shouting at him about “400 years of slavery”.
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