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Rajiv & Priya Dabedeen’s seven-month old baby, Tavish, seized from pram and thrown on Croydon road by local school girl
Written by Editor Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:15
The Dabedeen family of Croydon have been living a real nightmare for the past week following an attack on their seven-month old baby boy Tavish on Tuesday, July 27 “in broad daylight,” an incident that could have been fatal.
Yet the information had been kept under wrap until father of three, Rajiv Dabedeen, spoke to the Croydon Guardian a week later, i.e. on Tuesday, August 4.
Since then, the dramatic incident with the baby’s picture, probably through syndication, has been a world news item. The Croydon Guardian itself in its headline of August 4 wrote: “A seven-month-old baby boy was hurled into the path of an oncoming double-decker bus in West Croydon during a fight - as shocked commuters watched in horror … Miraculously Tavish Dabedeen survived with minor injuries and bruising after the unprovoked attack on his family. “Two girls, believed to attend the same school as his 13-year-old sister, launched a ferocious attack on the whole family (Mrs Priya Dabedeen also present with her own girl and baby) just seconds before one of them grabbed hold of Tavish and threw him in the road.” One of the two girls was arrested the same day, while the second one could not still be traced by police at the time of writing this piece.
This incident is reminiscent of the murder of toddler James Bulger of Liverpool by two young boys in 1993. The two boys, placed on the Child Abuse Register, have been released after a spell in jail, and one of them, now in his mid-twenties Jon Venables, as reported by the press, is still considered a menace to children. The desire to cause harm to innocent children is something that is probably in the blood and should be monitored by the authorities.
