A Houston area mom wants answers from school officials, after they failed to call paramedics when her 9-year-old experienced life-threatening stabbing injuries.
The incident took place on Monday at Pleasantville Elementary School, when Saniya Jones and an 8-year-old classmate got into an argument during an after school program over who was going to get to erase the blackboard.
The 8-year-old stabbed Saniya multiple times with scissors. Rather than call for an ambulance, school officials contacted the little girl’s grandmother, reasoning that she lived close by and could make the decision about what medical attention was required.
Saniya’s grandmother came to the school expecting to see a small cut; what she saw “was like a crime scene,” Faye Dorron said. “There wasn’t nobody at the front when I got there. I tracked the blood to this back room and that’s where I found Naya.”
The family rushed the girl to the hospital. “She was bleeding so bad they actually had to stitch the artery or close the inside of the artery and outside of the wound,” Sharina Smith, Saniya’s mother, told KHOU. “The doctor actually said that she could have died from so much of the blood that she lost on the way to the hospital. I don’t know how a child could lose this much blood.”
“They said I’m tough,” Saniya said regarding the medical staff who treated her, according to ABC 13 News
The Houston school district confirmed the incident took place. “A Pleasantville Elementary third grader was injured Monday during a brief altercation with a classmate. Administrators quickly intervened. The safety of students and staff is always HISD’s top priority. Appropriate disciplinary action is being taken per the HISD Student Code of Conduct.”
The 8-year-old girl was suspended, but children under age 10 cannot be prosecuted, ABC 13 reported.
Saniya’s mother is considering homeschooling her, saying, “It’s just the scariest thing to ever have to go through.”
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