A 14-year-old boy lost his two front teeth after he was allegedly held at knifepoint and bashed in a school toilet block over a vape.
The teen was allegedly set upon last June at Aveley Secondary College in Ellenbrook, Perth, when fellow students thought he was hiding a vape, which was actually a chocolate bar, in his pocket.
A 15-year-old boy was charged with causing grievous bodily harm over the incident and has pleaded not guilty.
The boy’s mother claimed she arrived at the school to find her son covered in blood but that teachers hadn’t called the police.
‘They basically told me, “Well, that’s up to you to contact the police”,’ she told 9News.
The boy, who has not been in school since, said he was left feeling the ‘worst pain I’ve ever felt. I was drooling, like, it’s just uncontrollable blood’.
‘It’s still scary to me, like how someone can just do that to another human being, I don’t understand it,’ he said.
The boy’s mother said she arrived at a ‘place where you think your child would be safe’ only to find her teenage son ‘completely covered in blood’.
The boy (pictured) was left without two front teeth after the alleged attack (pictured)
The 14-year-old’s school uniform (pictured) was covered in blood after the incident
A 15-year-old boy has been charged over the incident at Aveley Secondary College (pictured)
She said the school had only found one of his teeth.
The pair, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, decided to speak out after another student was allegedly coward-punched at a shopping centre last week, leaving him in hospital with a broken jaw.
‘It gave me absolute shivers down my spine just to hear and to know that it’s still happening,’ she said.
The mother said the school had expected her son to return ‘like nothing happened’. The Department of Education has been helping her to find him alternative schooling.
Western Australian Minister for Education Sabine Winton insisted the state government was cracking down on school violence.
‘Any incident of violence is concerning to me and let’s be clear – our government has a zero tolerance towards violence no matter where it is,’ Ms Winton told 9News.
‘I’m very confident that supports are being put in place to support those schools.’
