A 13-year-old boy, who was reportedly repeatedly abused by another boy his age, is nursing third degree burns, to his face, eyes, chest and neck after being set a blaze on February 27, allegedly by the same boy.
Osarin Stuart, a student of Overwinning Primary School, and of Lot 41 Stanleytown, was with friends at a roadside stall near his home when a named teen threw a flammable liquid on him and set him ablaze.
His mother, Otallie Stuart told the media, that the teen had injured her son twice before, but unfortunately the acts were never reported to the police.
The woman said the suspect had previously locked her son in an inoperable freezer. Fortunately, he was rescued by an observant neighbour. Another time, she said, her son was thrown from the upper flat of a building and subsequently hospitalized.
As a result of the fall, she said, he developed a speech impediment. “I had to take him to a private hospital where he underwent speech therapy. My son was not speaking after the incident. Is now he talking good. The bump at the back of his head is as a result of that injury. The doctor says he has to do a scan when he is much older.”
Osarin, relating the latest incident at the hospital, said, “I thought he was joking. I did not do him anything. We are friends. I took off my jersey when I feel the heat. I then run to my mother.”
According to Stuart, she was at home when she heard her son shouting “Tally, Tally, I get burn. [Name supplied] throw gasoline on me and scratch a match.”
Realizing the seriousness of the matter she took him to the Central Police Station where a report was made, then to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he was admitted.
Stuart said she was offered money by relatives of the alleged perpetrator and on a subsequent visit to the police station, she was asked by the police whether she had made an agreement with the suspect’s relatives for them to take things for her son. She stated that while things can’t return her son to normalcy, she is a single parent.
The alleged perpetrator, a third form student at another school, was detained briefly after the incident.
