-in alleged chucking incident where pointed object penetrated deeply into the eye, causing wound to bleed considerably

ELEVEN-year-old Ishmael Pollard, a student of St. George’s Secondary School on Church Street, Georgetown, was stabbed in the left eye with a pointed object by another male classmate yesterday at approximately 14:00 hrs.
The pointed object penetrated deeply into the eye, causing the wound to bleed considerably.
“His eye was very, very red, and there was blood on his shirt. He was rushed to the St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, where his mother works as a nurse,” his father, Wilfred Pollard, told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday. He added that because of the extent of the injury to his son’s eye, it had to be sutured.
The elder Pollard recalled being at work when he received the message informing that his son had been stabbed. However, the message did not say what part of his son’s anatomy had been injured, so the elder Pollard became terrified.
On reaching the child’s school, he said, he saw the other child’s parents there, and was told that the boys were playing – ‘touching one another’. Ishmael apparently did not take kindly to the touches and chucked the other boy aside. They allegedly proceeded to chuck each other, and the aggressor, who had a pen in his hand, rushed up to Pollard, targeting his face. The object landed in the child’s left eye.
But one child who claimed to have witnessed what transpired refuted claims that the boys were touching each other, and said it was more like ‘chucking’ each other. However, the doctor who attended to Ishmael is reported to have said that, from the nature of the wound, it did not appear to have been inflicted by a pen, but a piercing object.
The aggressor was taken home from school by his father, who informed the police that it was a case of self-defence. After initial treatment, Ishmael was discharged from hospital, but his parents have been advised to return him immediately in the event of an emergency. However, he is scheduled for a routine check next Tuesday.