CAIRO - The trial of a five-year child turned into a sympathy and laughter from those assembled in the Shubra Criminal Court, when presiding judge Khalid el-Shabassi took some candies out of his pocket and gave them to Hatem, who is being tried for causing a permanent injury to a playmate by mistake, legal sources said. They added that Justice el-Shabassi ordered that Hatem's case be dropped from his court and be transferred to a juvenile court, where the child should stand trial. "There is no law that brings a child to trial at a criminal court," the judge said, ordering that the case should be overseen by a juvenile court. Hatem was brought to the court crying. He was very scared and frightened of the soldiers who surrounded him.
