Parents and brother beat boy because he became a Christian, Tennessee cops say [View all]

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Police conducted a welfare check at the Nashville home shortly before midnight Dec. 11 following a request from the juvenile boy’s employer, according to Davidson County arrest affidavits obtained by McClatchy News. A Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officer found the boy “wide-eyed,” disheveled and trembling, with a scratch along the back of his hand, unevenly cut hair and lumps on his face, police said.

The boy told police he had recently become a Christian and his Muslim family attacked him over his decision. During the altercation, the boy said his family “demanded he recant and say he was a Muslim,” police reported in the affidavit.

He said his brother, mother and father “repeatedly punched him and spat in his face,” then his mother scratched the back of his hand with a knife, according to police.

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