Mother contemplating taking legal action

The reporting standards as it relates to violent and other such incidents that take place in the nation’s schools is under scrutiny again as the mother of a nine-year-old boy claims that an injury her son sustained in school led to him having to undergo brain surgery.

The mother who wanted her name withheld in telling her story to protect her son’s identity told SEARCHLIGHT what is troubling is that although people at the Kingstown Preparatory School (KPS) knew that an older student had pounded her son’s head on a door and on the concrete floor, she did not know the full story until her son had undergone a craniotomy and had 100 millimetres of pus drained from his brain due to meningitis.

A craniotomy is a surgical procedure where a section of the skull is temporarily removed to access and operate on the brain.

The distraught mother also stressed that the parents of the child alleged to have injured her son have not reached out to her; neither has the Ministry of Education.

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