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Pupil 9 Attempts Suicide - Trinidad, Tobago / Caribbean - Posted: 28th Jun, 2007 - 3:27pm
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While at school
Post Date: 16th Jun, 2007 - 1:43am / Post ID: #
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Pupil, 9, Attempts Suicide
Pupil, 9, attempts suicide
A nine-year-old girl who drank poison from a bottle while at school was in a stable condition last night at the Mt Hope Children's Hospital.
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This country and some of its people make me literally sick. It is sickening first of all that a young child can be treated in this way in this so called "Sweet T&T", feeling absolutely rejected and literally treated worst than a dog. Then it makes me sick that the villagers knowing all these things never did anything to alert authorities, typical Trinidadian behavior. Does the grandmother of this child think we are all a bunch of idiots?
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| The nine-year-old walked a mile to school. Neighbours said the girl would be walked to and from school by an older brother holding a stick. She lives with her grandmother and 12-year-old brother, in the rotted room of a building used to dry cocoa. Her mother left her behind when she was two years old, to start a new life outside the rural village of Mamoral No 2, 10 miles east of Chaguanas. Her father is not known to villagers. The only money the family has comes from a public assistance grant. The girl is a standard two pupil at a primary school... The girl, who many described as sad and reclusive, is a patient of the Mt Hope Paediatric Hospital. She was taken there last Wednesday afternoon by paramedics. The girl was visited at hospital by teachers. Yesterday, her grandmother said she was doing better. The grandmother said the girl drank the poison because she was often beaten and tormented by bullies at her school. She said the girl's brother would walk her to and from school to protect him her beatings. Villagers said the girl was a victim of domestic abuse and was encouraged to take the poison. Her classmates told their parents that the girl brought the weedicide to school in a vial, and mixed it with a soft drink. According to a child who witnessed it "she laughed and told us she going to kill herself. I going to drink Gramoxone. She walked to the classroom door and and drank it." The school's PTA president, said though the school's enrolment was small "no one knew the girl was was having problems. She always seemed friendly. This is troubling to us". She added: "The girl never went to church or temple. she seldom left the village to go to cinema or mall shopping." The girl is said to have run away from home in the past but was disciplined and taken back to the cocoa house, after her mother refused to take her in. |
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Knowing that Amy's mother who was involved in her brutal murder walked free and the whole country have forgotten about the whole thing already, I won't be surprised if this girl is returned to her grandmother again until one day she commits suicide for real...then the country will talk about it for a week and forget all about it to continue partying, having sex like animals and drinking like going out of style. This place truly makes me SICK!
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I felt very distraught after reading this article in the Express. I have to wonder what forced this child to commit such a drastic and horrible act? Thank god she told someone what she was going to do! I hope the relevant authorities conduct a full investigation into this matter. Who knows what drove her to commit suicide; it could be so many things: domestic violence, sexual abuse or bullying at school.
When she is discharged from the hospital, I sincerely hope that the relevant authorities do not send her back home. I strongly believe that may be the source of all her problems.......
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Gosh, you continue reading updates on this case and is truly pathetic. The mother of this child now wants her back after years of rejecting her but she lives in a shack, has five children, three of them mentally challenged. She took a slice of cassava pone as a birthday gift to the girl.
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| Six years after her daughter was taken, the mother of the little girl who poisoned herself at school last week wants her back. She visited her daughter at the Mt Hope Paediatric Hospital on Monday, and asked for forgiveness. "I never wanted to give up my child. I was beaten, chased, forced to. Now I want to make good. I love my daughter," she said. The girl turned 11 yesterday. Her mother will not visit her. She is too poor to afford the taxi fare from her shack in the hills of rural Central Trinidad. On Monday she took a birthday gift-a slice of cassava pone. She said her daughter, groaning in pain, asked for only one thing. "She wants to come live with me. She doesn't want to go back to where she lived before." The girl lived with her grandmother and brother, 15, in a cocoa-drying house at Mamoral No 2, a village deep in the forest of Central Trinidad. |
Pupil 9 Attempts Suicide
Kaisofan, with all due respect I notice a lot of Trinis like to raise the flag of "happens everywhere". I am sure it happens in other places but we are in the Trini board and we are discussing what is going on here whether it happens in the US or China, is irrelevant really.
The issue at hand is that this girl is only 9 years old, a victim of domestic violence, living in extreme poverty and trying to commit suicide at school. Where have been Social Services all of this time?
Post Date: 28th Jun, 2007 - 3:27pm / Post ID: #
Pupil 9 Attempts Suicide Trinidad & Tobago / Caribbean
I certainly did not mean to apply that it was OK and I do agree that once it too many times. If it happens to the one that we hear about, it may happen to others that are unable to be heard or are afraid to tell someone else.
With regards to the education here, children are NOT advised about domestic violence so they are not aware that something wrong is happening to them or that they are within there right to speak out. Some have no one to speak to. It's really sad.
Since this is the TTUTA forum what are we as teachers doing to deal with violence in schools? WHat CAN we do?
The society is such that people are afraid to report on others and they is also a distinct failure of authorities usually to deal responsibly with complaints.
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