Jake Bird, an eight-year-old boy on the Cliftonville Primary School in Margate, Kent, was within the faculty lunch corridor, when one other scholar got here to him, allegedly grabbed his head, and pressed a knife to his throat. According to the Daily Mail, regardless of the attack being unprovoked, the opposite pupil was let off “with a slap on the wrist.”
The attack was intervened by a dinner girl on the lunch corridor, Daily Mail reported, leaving Jake “shaken”.
The knife had additionally left behind a mark on Jake Bird’s neck. Jake’s father instructed Kent Online:
“Children want training about knives at an earlier age, particularly as knife crime is getting worse and worse. This might be taking place to our kids at younger ages.”
Jake Bird had a cutlery knife pressed into his throat whereas consuming lunch in school
Talking about his son to KentOnline, Jake Bird’s father described his son as “usually happy-go-lucky, very charismatic.” The father-of-one additionally shared that his son, who’s autistic, expressed himself by way of gestures.
While consuming lunch in his faculty’s lunch corridor, Jake Bird was retaining to himself, when the opposite scholar – whose title stays unrevealed in the meanwhile – allegedly approached him with a cutlery knife. The boy then grabbed Jake’s head with one hand and reportedly used the opposite to level the knife at him, making an attempt to push it deeper.
As the dinner girl working on the lunch corridor took discover of the continuing incident, she intervened to disarm the boy.
When Jake’s mom got here to gather her son from the college, she discovered him “shaken,” as per the eight-year-old’s father, who instructed Kent Online:
“Jake’s mum picked him up in school after the incident and that night he was shaken.”
The kid’s father additionally instructed Kent Online how the one means Jake Bird might describe it was by pointing to his throat and saying: “I was scared.”
According to Mr Bird’s assertion, his household has not acquired an apology from the boy who initiated the attack or his dad and mom, in the meanwhile.
According to Daily Mail, the Cliftonville Primary School has been rated as “outstanding” by Ofstead. Claire Whichcord, the headmaster of the college, instructed KentOnline that she had delivered the “most serious consequence” she might. Ms Whichcord additional acknowledged:
“The incident was a lunchtime incident that occurred in the school lunch hall, involving school cutlery while the children were eating. The matter was thoroughly investigated and appropriate follow-up actions were taken.”
Whichcord’s assertion wasn’t passable to Mr Bird, who known as it “abhorrent,” stating he believed that the boy ought to have been suspended.
Inspector Jim Woodward shared with Kent Online that such incidents in class are “extremely rare.”
