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St Margaret’s hands over report to Education Ministry
– following probe into pupil’s death
The Ministry of Education is now in receipt of a report from the St Margaret’s Primary School, which follows on the heels of a post mortem examination on the remains of one of its Grade Three pupils, eight-year-old Joshua Hubbard.
Speaking to this publication yesterday Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam, indicated that while the report has been made available to him he had not yet perused its contents. He however informed that the Education Ministry is taking an active hand in investigating the incident.
During a visit by this publication to the school on Monday, head teacher, Ms Georgiana Lewis, was at the time preparing the report on the incident which allegedly led to Joshua Hubbard’s demise.
Dead: Joshua Hubbard
It is alleged that his death was linked to an act of bullying meted out by a fellow classmate on February 14, last.
Reports are that Hubbard purchased a rose for his mother for Valentine’s Day but attempts were made by another pupil to relieve him of the gift, an action which reportedly resulted in Hubbard falling to the ground.
Although there were no signs of any life-threatening injury on the day in question it was not until the wee hours of the following day that the child started screaming for unbearable pain.
He was rushed to a private hospital where he was pronounced dead around 03:00 hours.
A post mortem examination conducted on his remains Monday revealed that blunt trauma to his neck was a significant contributing factor to his death. According to the autopsy report which was shown to this publication, cerebral haemorrhage, which is bleeding around or within the brain itself, was the condition leading directly to death which was brought on by a fractured spine.
It is believed that the Grade Three Pupil sustained the fatal injury when he was pushed to the ground.
According to the now deceased boy’s mother, Annette Roxanne Hubbard, officials from the Education Ministry had met with her on Monday and there was talk about the possibility of some form of donation to the family. She said, too, that Education Officials had promised to visit her yesterday to hold further discussions about her son, who is set to be buried on Friday.
The woman however still was in disbelief that the last of her four children is no longer alive.
“I’m a pressure case and I really can’t deal with this situation….I had to be sending my daughters to the school,” said the woman, as she made reference to the fact that her daughters, Shamaine Nurse and Shemeka Hubbard were at the St Margaret’s Primary School on Monday seeking to get answers about the incident that occurred there on Valentine’s Day.
Meanwhile, the dead boy’s father, Orin Hubbard, said that he has since filed a report on the matter at the Alberttown Police Station. He disclosed that a statement was taken by officers there who promised to investigate the matter.
According to the dead child’s eldest sister, Shamaine Nurse, while the intent is not to have anybody arrested or charged, there is need for other parents to be aware of what transpired so that more care and caution can be taken in the school environment.
“We just need to know what happened…that is all we are trying to find out and nobody is telling us the facts,” Nurse emphasised.
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