A 13-year-old student of the Patentia Secondary School is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after another student threw a scissors at him and it lodged in his head.
The injured student was identified as Neil Miggins, of Wales, East Bank Demerara, who is now recovering from a successful surgery after doctors removed the instrument.
His mother, Barbara Miggins, told Stabroek News that about 3:00 pm yesterday she received a call from an unknown person who explained that a scissors was “stuck “in her son’s head. “After I got the call I immediately left the shrimps that I was cleaning and went down to hospital because an ambulance had already taken him there,” she explained.
She said that when she arrived at the hospital, police ranks notified her that her son’s assailant, who is 17, was later caught. He told them that her son had interfered with him, which prompted his action. He was still in police custody last evening.
Miggins said that her son, who was later transferred to the Georgetown Hospital, related to her that in the time immediately before the attack, he and some other students were running down the stairs and he brushed his attacker on the left hand.
“He told me in the hospital that he was running down the stairs and he jam he on he hand. Is when he continue running then he said he feel a pain in he head,” the shaken mother noted.
After some hours at the hospital, relatives were relieved with the news that the surgery was successful in removing the scissors, described as being seven inches in length.
Barbara Miggins, however, said she disappointed at the way the headmistress handled the situation, noting that she did not call her to notify her about the incident. “When you are given a responsibility it is your duty have to perform to
the best of your ability. I feel that the matter was not handled professionally,” Miggins said.
Last month, another 13-year-old was stabbed in a school attack.
On January 22, Shane Hackett was stabbed in abdomen and upper back after with a “seamstress’ scissors” in a scuffle between him and another student at the Dolphin Secondary School.
Hackett was leaving the school compound when he was approached by his assailant, who started to shove him a number of times. The student further stated that a fight broke out between the two, which resulted in Hackett falling to the ground and the other male pulling out the scissors from his waist and stabbing him in his stomach and in his upper back.
