Following an eruption of violence at Freeburg Secondary School on Monday, during which 14-year-old Marlon Lowe of Norton Street, Wortmanville, was stabbed in the back by a fellow second former, police have requested that the aggressor be turned in to the Alberttown Police Station.

Being unable to find the juvenile offender on the day of the incident, the police requested that he be turned in to the Alberttown Police Station by a member of the teaching staff as soon as possible. However, that instruction has reportedly been ignored, and the delinquent teen continues to attend school as usual. According to a witness who spoke on condition of anonymity, “The boy stabbed Lowe on Monday and was back at school on Tuesday and Wednesday again.”

However, another boy, said to be Lowe’s friend, was suspended from the school the following day for allegedly cuffing a member of the “gang” who accompanied him to beat Lowe on Tuesday.

This newspaper understands that both Lowe’s and his assailant’s mother reported to the Ministry of Education and were asked to have their sons prepare statements about the incident. Lowe was also asked to present the shirt to the Ministry, but this instruction has left the family somewhat confused, since they seem to think that the shirt should be lodged with the police station and nowhere else.

But what is causing the Lowe’s family to become even more incensed, at this time, is that the offender’s mother is refusing to believe that her child would stab a classmate, and claims that it could not be he who was armed with the pointed implement.

Meanwhile, there is a degree of tension in the community, since other parents are now fearful of what can possibly happen to their children when they leave home to attend the school.