00:00 Parents send their children to school every day with the hopes that they would return home safely.
00:05 Well that didn't happen for one mother. She is here right now at the Mount Hope Hospital
00:11 with her teenage son who is nursing stab wounds.
00:14 The mother of the 14-year-old student says her son was going to the shop to get something to drink
00:24 when six boys ganged up on him. We're told two were from her son's school, Eldorado East Secondary,
00:31 one was a past student of that same school, two were from Eldorado West Secondary and one was
00:37 from Five Rivers Secondary. It wasn't anything like my son went in to fight to defend anybody.
00:44 It had a fight in the school earlier between the two Eldorado students. A form one and a form two
00:50 student. My son was not a part of that and he was not aware of it. And I guess the form two student
00:58 called for his team to back up and well I guess my son and the form four student have slight
01:05 resemblance. So I don't know if it's a mistaken identity or if it's just because he acquainted
01:10 with the person. She says one of the boys jump kicked her son in his chest and although her son
01:17 tried to get away from the fight, the group kept behind him causing the fight to happen
01:22 in different locations. My son sustained two stab wounds, one to his back which collapsed his lungs
01:29 on his left hand side, his left side and he also got a stab to his upper left arm. It damaged the
01:37 main artery that's supplying the blood to his hands and he had lost a lot of blood and well
01:46 the blood wasn't circulating so his hand went there it was discolored and was swollen. He
01:50 underwent surgery for that. But he's a left-hander and at this time there is very little movement in
01:56 that hand. She indicates that the teen had returned to school that day from being on suspension for
02:03 another fight. The mother tells us he wasn't one to initiate fights but he would defend himself
02:09 if he needed to. She states that in his spare time he takes up odd ends to earn money including
02:16 trying his hand at barbering. Her greatest fear at this time is that her son who has dreams of
02:22 joining the military could possibly end up an amputee. And the fact that he wouldn't be able
02:28 to use his hand again that's all I am worried about. And what is he telling you?
02:38 Yesterday he was like he wants to go home and it's better he dead.
02:43 As a mother how does that make you feel?
02:47 At that point I've been very honest when he told me that
02:57 I think I wanted if I had seen that person who did that at that moment
03:06 I would have wanted full revenge. That's not the only heartbreak or anger that she feels. The thing
03:12 is the parents of the children who did this they never contacted me so I need justice for my child.
03:22 Despite this she isn't attributing this situation to poor parenting. I won't blame the parents.
03:29 I won't blame the parents but what I will say is that the society I think we need to pray more for
03:37 our children because it's very easy for people to buy our children out here. It's very very easy
03:44 and I think somebody's trying on them it's very easy for these gangs to get them because it's
03:52 alleged that they're saying that these boys are part of some resistance gang or whatever that's
03:57 what they're saying. Her prayer now is that her son's life would return to normalcy. Reporting
04:03 from outside of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex I am Alicia Boucher for TV6 News.
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