'Dirty Indian, go back to India': Girl, 6, attacked by older kids in Ireland

Six-year-old Nia Naveen, an Indian-origin girl in Waterford City, Ireland, was attacked by a group of older children who punched her, hit her with a bicycle, and hurled racist abuse—calling her "dirty" and telling her to "go back to India."

“They said the F word and 'Dirty Indian, go back to India',"Nia Naveen’s devastated mother told the Irish Mirror.

Mom Anupa Achuthan revealed that the horror incident happened while her Irish-born little girl was playing outside her own home. Anupa said the gang included a girl aged around eight - and several boys between 12 and 14.

Anupa, an Irish citizen and nurse originally from Kerala, doesn’t want the children punished, only educated.

She said: “It was around 7.30pm and she was playing inside the house. She wanted to play outside and go cycling. I let her outside for a few seconds. My husband was at work on night duty. He was off to work and I was alone with my 10 month old and my six year old. She went out with her friends. I was supervising them just in front of the house. They were playing together and I knew they were safe."

"My youngest one started crying because it was his feeding time so I just let Nia know that I would be popping inside the house and she could play with her friends and I would be back in a second after feeding the baby.”

“I had never seen my daughter like that. I just asked her friends what happened and they were all so upset, they couldn’t talk. One of her friends said a gang of boys older than them hit her on the private parts with a cycle and five of them punched her on her face.

“She told me five of them punched her in the face. One of the boys pushed the bicycle wheel onto her private parts and it was really sore. They said the F word and “Dirty Indian, go back to India. She told me today they punched her neck and twisted her hair.”

“I belong here,” she says. “I’m a nurse. I take care of people. My children were born here. We just want to feel safe.”