A teenager who choked and slapped his female class prefect at a secondary school in Penal, Trinidad was lucky to have escaped her mother’s wrath.
The angered woman chased the teenage boy who reportedly expressed no remorse for his actions and refused to go to the principal’s office. Her efforts were in vain, however, as the child proved nimble on his feet.
The offending teenager has been suspended for seven days.
But the victim’s mother was for from satisfied.
The irate mother, Suzette Atteck, said her daughter’s eyeglasses were smashed during the melee and demanded that the boy’s parents replace the eye wear.
Atteck, a preschool teacher, was even more angered after she attempted to file a report at the Penal police station, but no charges were laid. Instead, she was questioned about chasing the boy around the school.
“The police told the boy to apologise to my daughter and that was it. I understand he would have been charged with assault and malicious damage to her property. I accepted the apology but the boy’s parents need to replace her glasses. It is unfair to us,” the woman told the Trinidad Express.
Atteck said her 13-year-old daughter, the class prefect, tried to caution the 14-year-old boy about his behaviour when she was attacked last week Friday.
She said her daughter was pushed and choked by the boy.
“Another child called me and I went to the school. That was when I saw my child crying and the boy refused to come to the principal’s office. I went after him and he started running. I know what I did was wrong. I chased him around the school and he ran out the gates,” she said.
The police were contacted and warned Atteck about her actions.
Atteck said she had reported to school officials that the boy had threatened to beat her daughter in January but nothing was done.
The mother of two is now calling on the Ministry of Education to intervene.
“That boy will return to school and my daughter will be there. How do I know she is safe? I have to worry about my child every morning when I drop her off to school. The ministry needs to do something about this,” she said.
