Bully reportedly pushes boy, 8, down stairs, victim dies … attack follows child’s purchase of rose for his mother

By Romila Boodram, February 16, 2013, By KNews, Filed Under News, Source

An eight-year-old St. Margaret’s Primary School student died around 01:00am yesterday, hours after he was reportedly pushed off the school’s step by a student of the said school.

Dead is Joshua Hubbard of Kitty, Georgetown.

Joshua Hubbard

According to reports, the child who on several occasions allegedly complained to his teacher about a “bully” who is after him, purchased a rose on Thursday to give his mother for her Valentine’s Day but was confronted at school by the older student who demanded the rose.

When little Hubbard refused to give his rose to the other student, “he push he (Joshua) down the step and Joshua landed on his back but nothing didn’t happen to him at the set time, it was till in the night he take in,” a relative said.

Yesterday, when Kaieteur News visited the child’s home, his mother, Roxanne Hubbard, was heartbroken.

She recalled that her son came home from school on Thursday and told her that another pupil had pushed him down the step. “I didn’t take it serious because he did not complain for any pain. When he came home he was playing in the yard as usual.”

“He bathe and brush he teeth and went to bed but he was tossing, tossing so I pray for him and he come back normal then a little after he start crying out for pain, it was the first time I hear my son cry out like that so he father carry he to the hospital,” Roxanne Hubbard lamented.

At the hospital, the family was informed that the eight-year-old was bleeding in his head. He eventually succumbed minutes after.

The family who is now highly upset claimed that the headmistress refused to tell them who was the child who pushed little Joshua off the steps and eventually caused his demise. They claimed that the eight-year-old made several complaints to the teacher who did nothing.