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He suffered from Fragile X syndrome. He was reported missing by his mother Niina Äikiä, who claimed he had disappeared after a visit to the Bäckebol shopping centre near Göteborg. Soldiers from the Swedish Armed Forces searched for Äikiä, but when a body could not be found, suspicion turned towards his mother.
Äikiä"s body was found under the ice of a nearby lake following his mother"s confession.
Both parents were sentenced to ten years imprisonment in June 2006 for involuntary manslaughter and mistreating a child. In February 2008 Bobby"s mother Nina Äikiä received 54,000 (Swedish kronor) in compensation after being attacked and cut in the face inside the prison.