Despite him being released from the Georgetown Public Hospital just over a week ago, eight-year-old Richard Boodram, who was brutally beaten by five of his classmates at the Mon Repos Primary last month, is still experiencing severe headaches and complains that he cannot see from his left eye, according to his mother, Devika Persaud.
Boodram was discharged from the hospital two Fridays ago after doctors said that his condition was improving. However, she says, he is suffering from severe headaches and she suspects that his left eye had been damaged as he says that he cannot see through it.
The mother is uncertain of what to do next because of her limited finances.
Up to Friday, she had received no word from the Ministry of Education or welfare officers concerning investigations nor have they contacted her to offer her any assistance.
Persaud found out that her son was the victim of a vicious attack, which was committed by five of his classmates, a couple of days after he son was hospitalised. Boodram reportedly told doctors what happened to him in the presence of Persaud.
The mother had told this newspaper that she noticed that her son was acting strangely when he came home from school on November 1st and refused to eat as he wanted to just lay in the chair. “He take the food and he put it back on the table and he cover it; he didn’t eat and he go and he lay down on the chair,” she had said.
As the days passed, Persaud said, her son’s condition continued to worsen and she eventually admitted him to the hospital. At that time, she was asked by the doctors if he was beaten but being unaware of what had transpired on November 1st, she told them no. However, two days later, when her son was visited by another set of doctors, he told them and her that he was beaten by five of his classmates. “He said to them that five boy beat he in the school yard and all five of the boys is in he class,” Persaud said.
The woman noted that her son is the smallest boy in his class at the school. “He find a ball in the school yard and they fighting he for the ball and two of them hold he down and one of them tek a wood and lash he in he head and another one come from behind and take a bottle and lash he pon he neck back,” Persaud recounted her son telling her and doctors.
