12-y-o allegedly beaten unconscious at Edwin Allen High

Shanique Johnson is livid - her 12-year-old daughter was sent to hospital on Thursday after she fell unconscious during an alleged brawl with a male student at the Edwin Allen High School in Frankfield, Clarendon.

Johnson says her daughter remains hospitalised, and will undergo a series of tests, including a CT, scan after allegedly being stomped and kicked in the head repeatedly.

"I am at the hospital from last night. I had to sleep down here. They took two bottles of blood from her. She's talking an' everything now, but right now she's inside still in pain, the right side of her face swell, and I'm waiting to do a CT scan," Johnson told The STAR.

The angry mother also chided the school, claiming administrators failed to disclose the graveness of the situation.

"When I went up to the school and go by the nurse, dem sey a little boy pushed her and she dropped on the concrete and lick her head. Some kids said when she fell the boy was stomping on her face and kicking her up in her head. God know, mi vex. I am upset," she said.

Her daughter alleges the brawl happened over a bracelet the accused student forcibly took from her.

"Mi did in the classroom, and him tek mi bracelet and have it pan him hand, and mi tell him fi give it back, an' him come out ah di class, an' mi drag [him shirt] an' sey 'Gimme mi bracelet, an' him turn 'round an' push mi, so mi push him back, him kick mi, mi kick him back an' slap him an' him push mi an mi head lick up, an' mi nuh know wah happen after that," the child said via a relative's phone.

Principal Jermaine Harris expressed cognisance of the matter, but said details were "sketchy."

"We are preparing a critical incident report to submit to the board of management, as well as the the Ministry of Education. [The incident] happened in the afternoon and the nurse rendered assistance to the child," he said.

- Olivia Brown

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