‘The Face of Hatred!’: Outrage Erupts After 70-Year-Old White Farmer Shows No Remorse for Allegedly Plowing Into 6-Year-Old Boy, Shattering His Legs for Picking Up an Orange

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A white South African farmer ran over a 6-year-old boy for allegedly “stealing” an orange off the ground, and now the community demands answers. Outrage is quickly spreading across South Africa’s West Coast after 70-year-old farmer Christoffel Johannes Stoman was arrested for ramming his vehicle — with a trailer attached — into Kwezi Beukes, a young boy from Lutzville, over a piece of fruit. The incident happened on Sept. 20, when Beukes and his mother, Magdalene Jantijies, were on their way to do food shopping and walked by Stoman’s smallholder farm. The child reportedly picked up one orange off the ground. When he reached through a fence to grab a second orange that had fallen off the tree, Stoman came from around the corner and slammed his vehicle into the mother and child, pinning them against the fence, Jantijies told local news outlet eNCA. South African farmer Christoffel Johannes Stoman is accused of running over a 6-year-old boy. (Photo: YouTube screenshot/eNCa) “He came from around the corner, and he was driving at a speed. He shouted, ‘Stand there, stand there,’ I thought he was going to stop. He aimed directly at us in a corner, and I screamed, ‘Help! Help!’”...

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