Claim: Photographs show a boy having his arm crushed under a truck as a punishment for stealing bread.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Boston desegregation busing crisis
text: as it appears in the photo, and he narrowly missed. A photograph of the attack on Landsmark, "The Soiling of Old Glory" taken by Stanley Forman for the "Boston Herald American", won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (now the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography) in 1977. In a retaliatory incident about two weeks later, black teenagers in Roxbury threw rocks at auto mechanic Richard Poleet's car and caused him to crash. The youths dragged him out and crushed his skull with nearby paving stones. When police arrived, the man was surrounded by a crowd of 100 chanting

title: Bangarang
text: YouTube on February 16, 2012. It depicts a group of three young boys robbing an ice-cream truck in an elaborate heist. During the robbery, the ringleader of the boys accidentally causes the ice-cream truck driver to lose his hand by forcefully slamming a door onto his wrist. He feels obvious guilt for this, and when his gang have grown up to adulthood, they perform a similarly elaborate heist on a van delivering four cases of cash. They succeed in stealing the cash, and the video concludes with the gang leader leaving one of the cases with the ice-cream man. The

title: Warsaw Ghetto boy
text: own experiences and the memory of a lost childhood friend. In these works, the boy's extended arms are often depicted with a crucifixion theme or with the boy seen as a part of an imagined monument. Both NARA and IPN describe the image as in the public domain. However in the 1990s Corbis Corporation acquired the photograph from Bettmann Archive and licenced three versions of it, charging commercial rates for its usage. , Getty Images, which acquired Corbis license rights in 2016, continues to offer it for sale, providing a copy of it with a copyright claim watermark as a

title: Charles W. Howard
text: curb, and overturning the vehicle. The young man let out a wail as he was knocked out of the way by the truck. Howard later remarked, "I knew if he could shout he was alive and that was more than I expected." Frightened half-to-death, he climbed out of the truck to check on the boy, who was frightened but unharmed. Bystanders quickly came to assist Howard, but when he directed them to check on the child, the boy was nowhere to be found. One of the truck wheels was crushed and the bystanders assisted him in turning the truck upright.

title: Bruised Orange
text: church steps before Mass. Because they’d sue the church if people fell and broke their legs. So I was going down there to get the snow and ice off. I went over to the train tracks. A kid who had also been an altar boy at the Catholic Church, I found out later, was walking down the train tracks. And evidently the commuter train came up behind him. They were taking him away in bushel baskets, there was nothing left of him. There were a bunch of mothers standing around, trying to figure out – cause it was Sunday morning

title: Stones in Water
text: The boys are taken to a labor camp, where they work on an airstrip. They are fed bread and sausage and cheese, and if they are the first to find the body they strip dead boys for warmer clothing. One boy finds out Enzo is Jewish and blackmails Enzo for more food. They continue to live like this until Enzo is beaten to death over a pair of German boots and Roberto decides to escape the camp to safety. He finds an Italian soldier and together they ride down a river to safety. Stones In Water Stones in Water Stones

title: All Hell Broke Loose
text: faced, chanted along. But others realized that Arabs had been injured too, and a rare few worked even harder to promote understanding and peace between the divided people. The film shares the devastating effects of having survived a terrorist attack. One little boy who survived the attack now has burn scars all over his back and arms; he was robbed of his naiveté and now stared at his playmates like a skeptical old man. He says he thinks about death now, which is something he'd never thought about before. Despite the documentary's grim subject matter, it does leave room to

title: Boy in the Box (Philadelphia)
text: in the summer of 1954. Subsequently, the boy was subjected to extreme physical and sexual abuse for two and a half years. One evening at dinner, the boy vomited up his meal of baked beans and was given a severe beating, with his head slammed against the floor until he was semiconscious. He was then given a bath, during which he died. These details matched information known only to the police, as the coroner had found that the boy's stomach contained the remains of baked beans and that his fingers were water-wrinkled. "M"'s mother then cut the boy's distinctive long

title: Bible Missionary Church
text: of physical and emotional abuse. Allegations included banging heads together and kicking the children for sleeping at inappropriate times. One case sent a 9-year-old boy to Lake Cumberland Regional Medical Center, where he was treated for bruises on his shoulder, arm, back, buttocks and leg, according to the court document. Corporal punishment was being used and sometimes administered by other students rather than staffers. 30 students were bused from the academy to a crisis center in Louisville. All alleged charges were dropped after the trial jury ruled to acquit the accused. Another judge ruled against the state agency that brought

title: Ismail Shammout
text: refugee experience of the Palestinians. In the foreground, it depicts a life-size image of an elderly man dressed in rags carrying a walking stick in his left hand while his right hand grasps the wrist of a crying child. A sleeping toddler on his shoulder is resting his cheek upon the old man's head. Just behind them is a third child crying and walking alone. In the background there is a skyline of an Arab town with a minaret, while in the middle ground there is a withered tree. From 1997 to 2000, he and al Akhal painted a collection

title: Paul Keaney
text: on their feet and hands. Their breakfast invariably contained brick dust. They were made to sleep on urine soaked mattresses. Furthermore, the boys would be beaten with belts, which had heavy buckles. The beatings would be conducted in front of the other boys. The boys' trousers would be pulled down, in front of the other boys, before they received their beatings. Keaney also oversaw a culture of abuse in which other brothers and children were encouraged to rape, humiliate and abuse weaker boys. In an effort to raise awareness of the issue, Senator Andrew Murray spoke to a Matter of

title: The Pianist (memoir)
text: goods had been thrown over, and the child was about to follow: His skinny little figure was already partly in view when he suddenly began screaming, and at the same time I heard the hoarse bellowing of a German on the other side of the wall. I ran to the child to help him squeeze through as quickly as possible, but in defiance of our efforts his hips stuck in the drain. I pulled at his little arms with all my might, while his screams became increasingly desperate, and I could hear the heavy blows struck by the policeman on

title: Warsaw Ghetto boy
text: sample. Warsaw Ghetto boy The Warsaw Ghetto boy appears in the most well-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, holding his hands over his head while "SS-Rottenführer" Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction. The boy and his family hid in a bunker during the final liquidation of the ghetto, but they were caught and forced out by German troops. After the photograph was taken, all of the Jews in the photograph were marched to the "Umschlagplatz" and deported to Majdanek extermination camp or Treblinka. The exact location and the photographer are not known, and Blösche

title: Battle of the Overpass
text: kicked me some more. . . One union organizer, Richard Merriweather, suffered a broken back as the result of the beating he received. The security forces mob also attempted to destroy photographic plates, but the "Detroit News" photographer James R. Kilpatrick hid the photographic plates under the back seat of his car, and surrendered useless plates he had on his front seat. News and photos of the brutal attack made headlines in newspapers across the country. In spite of the photographs, and many witnesses who had heard his men specifically seek out Frankensteen and Reuther, security director Bennett claimed —

title: Warsaw Ghetto boy
text: forced out of a bunker by armed German soldiers. The original caption was "Forcibly pulled out of bunkers" (). Most of the Jews are wearing ragged clothing and have few personal possessions. After being removed from the bunker, they were marched to the "Umschlagplatz" for deportation to an extermination camp. In the center of the photograph is a small boy wearing a newsboy cap and knee-length socks who appears six or seven years old. He holds his hands up in surrender as "SS-Rottenführer" Josef Blösche holds a submachine gun pointing downwards in his direction. The photograph contains many opposites; as

title: Warsaw Ghetto boy
text: Warsaw Ghetto boy The Warsaw Ghetto boy appears in the most well-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, holding his hands over his head while "SS-Rottenführer" Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction. The boy and his family hid in a bunker during the final liquidation of the ghetto, but they were caught and forced out by German troops. After the photograph was taken, all of the Jews in the photograph were marched to the "Umschlagplatz" and deported to Majdanek extermination camp or Treblinka. The exact location and the photographer are not known, and Blösche is

title: Prompt Payment and Stealing a Ride
text: despite the more serious nature and dramatic element of two children being lost in the woods during the winter. A detail in a review from "The New York Dramatic Mirror" states that the children are tracked "to shelter behind some rocks, where the boy had built a fire by which the little girl had gone to sleep. After reaching home each youngster was spanked, but the punishment was eased by hearty kisses." The films are presumed lost because neither film is known to exist by any archive or collector. Both films were released together on a single reel on January

title: The Blue Belt
text: boy under rocks at the quarry. The boy went with him, the next day, but the boy was unhurt and rolled a stone on the troll that crushed his leg. The troll told the boy's mother that he had a garden with twelve lions in that would tear him to pieces. The mother pretended to be sick and sent him for lion's milk, but there, the boy dashed the biggest to pieces, cowing the others, and got the milk. The troll swore he didn't believe it, but the boy tossed him to the eleven lions, which had come with him,

title: Shuttle (film)
text: and puts it to Mel's head, telling her to get away from the pedals. Andy then reveals himself to be in league with the Driver. They stop at a bridge to throw the boys' bodies off, and afterward, Andy torments the girls for a few minutes before the Driver gets him to stop. Mel get a tire iron from under the seat, and keeps it by her side. Andy wraps tape around the girls' mouths and takes a cuff of their hair. Mel hits him several times with the tire iron and the Driver is forced to stop. She pulls

title: I'm Not Scared
text: the place, throwing rocks at the leg. As he moves to pick up another rock, the camera pans to him, on the ground, searching around him in the dirt, where Michele finds another rock to throw. As the camera pans back into the hole, the leg is out of sight. Startled, Michele is suddenly staring down at a zombie-like young boy stumbling out of the darkness and into view. Terrified, Michele hurries home once more, but then his bicycle chain breaks and he is thrown off his bike. As he returns home he is scolded for being late. The next