We haven't seen any English language coverage of this yet, but always-reliable European reader Soldat Louis has forwarded us this report of an incident which apparently occurred yesterday in the small French village of Uckange:

A 5-year-old boy stabbed his 10-year-old sister because she didn't want to give him her Nintendo DS. Her mother, who has sole custody of the children, was sleeping at the time and was alerted by her daughter's screams.

The girl is still at the hospital, but she's not in mortal danger. The boy is aware of what he's done. He said to the police that his sister didn't want to give hime her Nintendo DS, and that he thought the knife was a toy. I've also read that he apparently likes the game "Power Rangers", in which the characters (alledgely) throw knives.

The mother of the 2 children has been raising them since the father abandoned them and fled to Albania. According to her, he was violent to the point of hitting her. She works at night to raise her children, and while she's at work, her brother and her niece babysit them.

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/03/02/report-5-year-old-stabs-sister-over-nintendo-ds

Lol I always knew Power Rangers was an evil game

Oh Gawd here we go again.....Videogames increase violence in children and Teens

Oooo that damn power rangers.... We didn't stab our sisters when I was a kid and things like power rangers didn't exist!!!!

oh wait a second

That poor woman. This is the last thing she needed.

A follow-up:

5-year-old DS stabber story turns out to be false - Mom made up story to hide her own guilt

This is just sick…purely evil. A couple days back, we told you that a 5-year-old boy stabbed his sister over a fight about their DS. It turns out that that’s not the case at all. Not only was the DS not even involved, the truth is actually much more disgusting. Check out this explanation from a reader over at GamePolitics…

In fact, the 10-year-old girl was stabbed, but NOT by her 5-years-old brother. She was stabbed by her mother ! And, of course, it wasn’t because of a Nintendo DS. According to what I read, the daughter was examined by a surgeon, who said that it was impossible that such a young boy could hurt someone so deeply. Then, the investigators talked to the children, and the daughter told them that she was stabbed by her mother, who finally confessed that she did it. She was apparently upset by the noise made by her children.

While it’s good to know that the DS had absolutely nothing to do with this…finding out the truth makes things even worse.

Source: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/03/04/french-5-year-old-didn039t-stab-sister-over-ds-after-all via http://gonintendo.com/?p=74593#comments

:-O at the update

what a horrible mother, i feel sorry for the children.

wow...this is very sad.....the mother is possessed

That's really sad, what a bad mother.

damn...i still cant get over this...what a sick "mother" fcker