Bobby Äikiä

Bobby Äikiä (March 12 1995 – January 14 2006) was a Swedish boy who was murdered by his mother and stepfather. Bobby suffered from Fragile X syndrome. Äikiä was left to freeze after being tied to a chair and thrown out of his house by his stepfather Eddy Larsson. He was reported missing by his mother Niina Äikiä, who claimed he had disappeared after a visit to the Bäckebol shopping centre near Göteborg. Soldiers from the Swedish Armed Forces searched for Äikiä, but when a body could not be found, suspicion turned towards his mother. Äikiä's body was found under the ice of a nearby lake following his mother's confession. Both parents were sentenced to ten years imprisonment in June 2006 for involuntary manslaughter and mistreating a child.

In February 2008 Bobby's mother Nina Äikiä received 54.000(Swedish kronor) after being attacked and cut in the face inside the prison, the money was compensation for the attack.

External links

* [http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/inrikes/did_12604441.asp About the death of Bobby Äikiä, SVD.se]
* [http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/inrikes/did_11689671.asp First report of Bobby Äikiä disappearance,SVD.se]
* [http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,872352,00.html Äikiä's mother in court]
* [http://www.expressen.se/1.352416 The Bobby Äikiä Memorial Fund]