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The mother of the 14 year old student of El Dorado East Secondary School who was stabbed on Wednesday tells TV6 News that her son was unaware of why he was being beaten and stabbed with a knife.
According to her, it wasn't her son's fight and it was not a case of him intervening. She is now calling for justice.
Reporter Alicia Boucher and cameraman Immanuel Nunez bring you the details in this exclusive interview.
Transcript
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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