A mum has revealed the sad reason her boy lost his two front teeth after he was reportedly held at knifepoint inside a school toilet.
The boy, aged 14, was said to have been pounced on by a group of students at Aveley Secondary College in Perth, Australia.
According to his parent, the students brutally attacked him after they thought he was hiding a vape on him. They reportedly punched the boy in the face last June.
However, he actually had a chocolate bar pocking out of his pocket. In shocking images, the victim could be seen covered in blood – which had dripped down his uniform.
Despite the extent of the crime, the mum claims that the school told her to report it to the police herself.
The victim told 9 News : “[It was the] worst pain I’ve ever felt … I was drooling, like, it’s just uncontrollable blood. It’s still scary to me, like how someone can just do that to another human being, I don’t understand it.”
His distraught mother said it was “any parent’s worst nightmare”, “to turn up to a place where you think your child would be safe and find them completely covered in blood”.
She added that the school only located one of his knocked-out teeth. The mother withdrew her son from school and he hasn’t been in school education since.
She slammed the department for not helping her find another school and said they assumed her son would come back “like nothing had happened”.
The mum reported the issue to the police. A 15-year-old boy has since been charged with causing grievous bodily harm. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The mum has decided to speak out after another child was punched by a fellow pupil at a shopping centre last week. The victim endured a broken jaw. He has since been released from hospital.
According to the publication, this is the third time assaults at the school.
The Mirror has contacted the school for comment.
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