Female student stabbed in neck

A Layou mother is of the opinion that an incident where a female student athlete was stabbed in the neck on Thursday, November 28, 2024, by another student could have been avoided with proper intervention from the authorities and parents.

SEARCHLIGHT has learnt that officers at the Barrouallie Police Station detained a female student of the Campden Park Secondary(CSS) formerly the Bethel High School, for allegedly stabbing a female student of the Central Leeward Secondary School (CLSS)- also known as the Barrouallie Secondary School – in the throat with an unknown object.

The incident is alleged to have occurred during a disagreement outside the CLSS compound in Peter’s Hope, after which the injured party was taken for medical attention, and is said to be in critical condition in hospital.

The teenagers are said to be familiar with one another as both are residents of Barrouallie, and athletes.

The mother from Layou referred to an incident in Grenada in May of this year involving both girls who were competing in athletics as part of a St Vincent and the Grenadines contingent. She claimed that her daughter and the other student, who was injured on Thursday, had a disagreement over friendship with a male, and in Grenada, a concoction was poured into her daughter’s throat while she slept.

She said her daughter was taken to a medical facility and when she returned home could not eat solid foods for over a week.

“I had to feed her with juice and porridge.”

A student of the CLSS said he had just arrived at the school gate a few minutes past 8:00 a.m on Thursday, November 28, when he saw a female student from his school push a student from the CPSS into a gutter outside the school’s gate.

He told SEARCHLIGHT that the CPSS student got up from the gutter and began ‘flying’ her hand but did not see exactly what she was doing.

It was not until he saw a knife in her hand and splattered blood in the area, that he realised his school mate had been stabbed.

After the stabbing incident, more than a dozen screenshots of unsocial text messages and posts by the two girls began making the rounds on social media.

“When you start to wear yo owna things come to me ml,” states a post attributed to the CLSS student and posted to her Whatsapp status at 9:05 p.m on the night before the incident.

“You need to go out and buy yourself some good shoes and stop dey ah wear your school shoes everywhere and stop dey ah beat out poor…shoes ello.”