Teen assaults Head Teacher, leaves her with split lip, swollen face
The police attached to the Fort Wellington Police Station, West Coast Berbice, staged a confrontation between Gangadai Iasacs, the acting Head Teacher of No.5 Primary School and her alleged teenage attacker.
Isaacs who was reportedly dealt several cuffs to the face by the teen in the presence of her 11-year-old daughter, five-year-old niece and three-year-old son and hit several times about her body is still fearful since the teen continues to roam the area as is his norm.
Beaten: Gangadai Isaacs
With her face still swollen on the left side she told reporters at the Central Police Station that on the said day she made the report of the incident, the young man was detained for a short period of time and subsequently released.
She stated that she was heading to her mother’s residence in the company of her children and niece on Saturday around 16:30 hrs when she noticed the teen walking in the opposite direction.
“He walked past the two girls since they were walking in front of me. Me and my son were walking at the back. So he walked past them and appeared to heading towards me so I stopped to allow him to pass but he did not pass; he stopped in front of me.
“I asked him if he is not seeing where he was going but he did not respond. I then took my son and moved him to the side so the teen could pass.
“But then he walked into my son and knocked into him. I turned and said, ’Something definitely wrong with you’. That was when he turned around and give me one push to my stomach.”
Isaacs added that she immediately grabbed her son but the teen again allegedly stood in front of her and suddenly “kiss me on my lips”.
She retaliated by “spitting in his face”. This angered him and he subsequently began to rain cuffs to the woman’s face and about her body.
Shortly after the ordeal the young man’s mother showed up “but I went to the police station and they came as well”.
According to Isaacs, while she was making the report the teen’s mother kept denying that her son ever assaulted her but only told the police that she saw “me spit in his face”.
The assaulted woman said that it is not the first time the young man and his family have caused trouble within the community.
“Many of the residents have experienced these people and their troubling behaviour”.
She disclosed, “These people are troublemakers to the entire community. Recently he choked a guy and when the police came, the police did not arrest him but they arrested the guy that he beat up”.
Residents in the community stated that “the mother of this child is always making phone calls to higher persons, either in the police force or the government and whenever people would make reports to the station nothing comes of the story.
“But they would make trouble and go to the station and make false allegations about people in the community. Then you would see a whole jeep load of police coming but if they do you something and you go to the station you would have no police showing up”.
Kaieteur News understands that the teen would normally walk the streets in the community with “a short pants and a cutlass”, an act that sends fear into residents.
Isaacs said she is experiencing pains in her chest and lower body. She has a swollen lip and left side face. She added that there were no previous grievances with the accused who is still a student of the No.8 Secondary School.
Police are investigating.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education said in a statement that it has noted with concern the assault on the acting Head teacher of the No 5 Primary School, West Coast Berbice.
“The MoE in the strongest manner condemns this assault on the teacher and assures that the appropriate actions will be taken with regards to this matter. The Education Ministry has since launched an investigation and the findings of the said investigation will be made available upon its conclusion.”
