Minor was stabbed by a classmate while queuing for snacks at a school in Bogotá

The line to access the services of the school restaurant in Bogotá ended in a knife duel between two students. Photo: Colprensa

The events were recorded in the establishment of the European Union school in the town of Ciudad Bolívar in Bogotá. One of the mothers reported that her son was in line for snacks when one of her classmates pulled out two knives and handed her one.

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“Indeed, there was an incident of aggression from one student to another. In the version of the same students, they argue that they were playing around when they received the snack and from this action one of them was injured in the arm. In this sense, the attention route is activated ”, the school detailed in a statement.

The line to access the school restaurant services ended in a knife duel between the two students. During the fight, one of the minors was stabbed in his arm. The minor’s mother expressed her concern about the little control that the institution has with this type of situation.

“How do they allow schools to bring in knives? Apart from that it could have been worse. They have no controls. I ask the Minister of Education, President Petro, the Secretary of Education, to please take action on the matter. There is a lot of violence in schools. Why do they have to go through bullying? They are no longer safe places for our children,” said the mother of the assaulted minor.

The injured minor had to be admitted to a hospital for care. It is known that in the last hours he received a medical discharge and that he is recovering with his family.

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The parents of the injured young man decided to withdraw him from school and denounced that after the incident they have received threats. “My son is not going back to school. We send him to another for his safety. Because where there are weapons, the issue is quite complicated.

During the case, another mother also denounced that her son is a victim of bullying by colleagues who attacked him so hard for the second time that they fractured his arm. “What we ask is that teachers be more attentive.”

The Ministry of Education ruled on this case and reported that from the moment the situation became known, the Office for School Coexistence (OCE), of the Ministry of Education, has been accompanying the school guidance team of the school, for the review of the situation and assured that: “they will develop pedagogical spaces with the students and their families to work in an articulated and co-responsible manner, to prevent and mitigate these situations and thus promote the schools as territories of peace”.

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For its part, the educational establishment mentioned in the statement: “the corresponding reports are being generated to work, through all school government entities, in favor of the search for promotion and prevention strategies to achieve a healthy coexistence.”

On the afternoon of Monday, June 1, during a Colombian Migration control carried out in Bogotá, an educator who was being investigated after being accused of sexually abusing four students in Huila was captured.

His victims would have been students aged 9, 10 and 11 in events that occurred, according to the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office, during 2022 and would have lasted until March 2023 in an educational institution in the district of Bruselas, rural area of ​​Pitalito, where they were He worked as a teacher. The 37-year-old educator was identified as Deivis Fabián Suárez Titimbo, who had come to work with the Pitalito teachers in 2012.

After the capture, a prosecutor for Children and Adolescents in Huila managed to get a Judge with the Guarantee Control Function of Pitalito to immediately impose an insurance measure on him in a prison.

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