Murder of Bobby Äikiä

(????-2006)

Murder of Swedish boy

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The murder of Bobby Äikiä (12 March 1995 – 14 January 2006) occurred outside Nässjö, Sweden, when Äikiä, a 10-year-old Swedish boy, was murdered by his mother and stepfather. He suffered from Fragile X syndrome and as such, he had problems with social interactions and suffered from extreme timidity. His mother, Niina Äikiä, gave birth to Bobby when she was 19 years old but considered him as more of a younger brother to her as she felt he was a bother. Niina got a support family for Bobby that he visited every week to help him socialize and help in raising him. Niina eventually fell in with a man named Eddy Larsson, who had previously been incarcerated for rape. Larsson wooed Niina with promises of a quiet country life in a quaint little croft with a few animals to raise. The thought of life in the country side appealed to Niina so much that she left her old house and Bobby's support family to move in with Larsson. Once there, she discovered that he'd actually rented an old dilapidated croft that had no animals at all. The croft had no toilet, no hot water, minimal electricity and was heated by cab heaters and the stove.