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By Prince Moore
Principal of Steer Town Academy, Omar Mongal, has sought to clarify that Monday's attack which left a 13-year-old girl of the institution hospitalised did not take place on the school compound.
The teenager was beaten unconscious by six other female schoolmates in the community of Steer Town, St. Ann.
Mr. Mongal said the incident also did not stem from the teenaged girl stepping on the shoe of another student.
"It happened because a group of girls were indeed jostling each other...with their insults and so forth, and they ended up in a scuffle. She fell and she hit her head, was unconscious and was taken to St. Ann's Bay Hospital by a passing motorist," he clarified.
Still, the principal said any type of violent incident involving students, whether at school or in the community, is unfortunate and unacceptable.
Mr. Mongal said the school has identfied the six girls involved in the attack on the 13-year-old, made contact with their parents, and is determining the action to be taken against them.
"The education system has its protocols that must be applied. And every administrator knows that that must be done. There's a process of a critical incident that has to be completed, sent off to the ministry. You have to get all the parties involved, the parents involved. If the matter needs to be dealt with by the Board of Management, there is a process that you have to take to put that matter there. And so the school, we would have started the process."
The police are also involved in the investigation.
Mr. Mongal was speaking Wednesday evening on TVJ's All Angles.
The 13-year-old girl is making progress in her recovery.
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