Education Dep’t intervenes in school kicking death

The Ministry of Education Schools Welfare Department has since intervened in the incident which resulted in the death of ten-year-old Roseann Akeila Harris and her mother is calling for an explanation on why a doctor was unable to determine her child’s injury despite conducting several examinations and a blood test.

A post-mortem examination performed on Monday revealed that Harris, a Grade Five pupil of St Stephen’s Primary School, who had been kicked in her abdomen allegedly by a classmate, died from blunt trauma to the stomach. Her mother, Samantha Peters, also said she was told that her daughter died from blood poisoning.

However, former chairman of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Board Dr Carl Max Hanoman, in an invited comment, told Stabroek News that from his experience, it was possible that Harris sustained a rupture of the