Published 3 April 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Brothers Facing Charges For Schoolyard Fight
St Kitts and Nevis (WINN: The two teenage brothers who beat up a fellow female student at the Charlestown Secondary School a few weeks ago could be facing criminal charges.
Nevis Premier Mark Brantley said the police have been investigating the incident which he said embarrassed the entire island.
“I’m advised that the police are engaged in this matter and obviously I can’t comment on that aspect of things but I’m told the police are prepared to lay charges to it.”
The Premier said in these instances persons rush to judgment that the offenders came from “a bad home”. He said in this case, both sets of parents condemned the violence.
“We have to inculcate in our children in particular and our people more generally that the way to resolve disputes is not through violence and of course seeing two boys batter a girl especially that they appeared physically bigger than that girl I feel that that shocked and nauseated all of us. I’ve had the privilege of speaking to both sets of parents the girl and the two brothers and I am satisfied in my own mind that this is behavior that is not condoned by those parents nor encouraged by those parents. In fact, if I can be so bold I can say those parents appeared credibly embarrassed by the activities of their children in school. One of the tragedies of that video wasn’t even so much the actual altercation between two boys and a girl it was the fact that you had, by my tall, nearly 50 students standing around laughing, jeering, not one of them stepped forward to say let us part the fight so it begs the question of malaise in the wider community that we could see that happening and our response is to laugh and jeer and encourage and egg on rather than say this is wrong. And I have called shame on those boys up at CSS and I think all of them should be ashamed of themselves.”
Unfortunately, violence and other types of anti-social behavior in the schools is not a new problem Premier Brantley said. He made an impassioned plea for parents to train their children in the right way.
