A furious father has slammed the principal of Alexander Sinton High School for mishandling a shocking incident in which a schoolgirl was brutally beaten by a fellow pupil outside the Athlone-based school, Cape {town} Etc reports.
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Last month, a 25-second video went viral, capturing a distressing scene in which a girl ruthlessly punches, chokes, and throws a defenceless peer to the ground, who does not attempt to fight back.
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Peter Williams from Mitchells Plain, the father of the 16-year-old girl who was brutally attacked, revealed that the school never notified him about the incident or the subsequent disciplinary process.
He stated that the only communication he received was from investigating officers seeking his statement for the hearing, highlighting the school’s failure to inform him as a parent of the serious matter involving his minor daughter.
‘Immediately after the attack, my daughter contacted me to say that she was attacked. They were waiting for her on the corner, it was a planned incident,’ he said.
‘Nobody made contact with me from the school whatsoever, I was never informed when the disciplinary hearing will take place and the procedure.’
‘On Monday, I confronted the principal about why he made contact with the other family and not me.’
‘I am appealing the outcome of the disciplinary hearing because the nature of the attack was severe.’
‘My daughter is currently on medication, she suffers from depression and anxiety but we are getting counselling for her. She doesn’t eat or sleep.’
Spokesperson for the Western Cape Education Department, Milicent Merton, says: ‘The school reported that on the day of the incident, the parent of the plaintiff contacted the school before they could contact him. The principal met with the parents of both learners separately the day after the incident.’
‘The parent of the plaintiff attended the disciplinary hearing.’
Peter Williams disputed the school’s claims, presenting Daily Voice with a letter signed by Principal Ashrif Barday on September 2.
The letter asserts that the school had reached out to the other family regarding the disciplinary hearing but failed to contact him.
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