One teen hospitalised, another in custody following stabbing
It used to be that playground squabbles would end in a black eye or busted lip. But times have changed, and a misunderstanding at a sporting venue in Belize City on Tuesday afternoon has left a thirteen year old boy hospitalised and a twelve year old in police custody. Police say that around three-thirty Tuesday afternoon they responded to reports of a ruckus at a school’s sports day at the M.C.C. Grounds where they found Clinton Gill suffering from a stab wound to the upper left side of his back. Gill, who is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, is complaining of pain and his mother, Karen Jergenson is not sure what the future holds.
Jacqueline Woods
?What is the condition of your son, what is your son doing??
Karen Jergenson, Mother of Stabbing Victim
?The doctor said that he?s stable right now. All I know is that one of his lungs punctured. He?s got a punctured lung that?s why he got to have the tube in his side. This whole thing caused over some bicycle wheel weh some one of his next friend take off the lee bwai bicycle and he blames my son. My son tell me that dah noh he take off the wheel off the bicycle. He still went up to my son, punch him in the mouth, and that it where it started and this is how it ends, with him lying in the hospital. Right about now I think I need some justice to be done. You could say he?s frightened and scared at the same time because when he comes to the hospital, he cry when we leave and then the security guard they noh want we stay neither. I mean, that?s my son in there.?
Jacqueline Woods
?How is his prognosis? Do the doctors expect him to recover fully??
Karen Jergenson
?That I don?t know because I noh speak to the doctors since morning. I haven?t spoken to any doctors since this morning, all I know is that they tell me that a specialist to come check with him and I not even know if the specialist come.?
Gill, who is a standard five student at Queen Street Baptist School, was stabbed with a wooden handled ice pick. Police have detained a twelve year old who remains in custody and is expected to be taken to the Family Court on Thursday.
