HOMESTEAD, Fla. – A Homestead constitution faculty scholar dealing with felony fees after police say he threatened to kill a classmate with a couple of scissors is back in faculty, a lot to the dismay of the accuser’s mom and different oldsters who say the teen has made threats sooner than.
Ershia Godbolt has since pulled her youngsters, together with her 13-year-old son, Jaquan Wynter, from Somerset Oaks Academy.
Jaquan stated in February, the teen “herd(ed)” him into a rest room, “like he wanted to talk to me about something.”
Then, Jaquan stated, “Basically, what he does is he looks at me and goes into his pocket and he pulls out a pair of scissors and he like puts it to my neck and he says ‘next time you spread rumors about me I going to F-in kill you.’”
The perpetrator, in accordance to an incident file, stated he informed the sufferer he would “stab his guts out” with scissors he pulled from a entrance pant pocket to threaten, “intimidate” and “scare” him into preventing spreading rumors about him.
The rumors in query? “A girl had told me that (the offender) had liked her and I had told my friend and it just bounced around like that,” Jaquan stated.
Another scholar informed investigators she “heard the offender speaking in class that he wanted to shoot the victim” and didn’t really feel secure round him.
“(He) threatened to cut out my son’s tongue and was telling other students that he was going to shoot him,” Godbolt stated.
Jaquan and the suspect had met in artwork class a couple of 12 months prior.
“He always talked about he wanted to hurt people, it wasn’t just me, he would tell multiple people he talked to me about hurting and I just found that weird,” he stated. “He would do that a lot, say that about other people, including his family too, he would say how he wanted to hurt his little sister for being annoying.”
Police arrested and charged the offending scholar with annoyed attack with a dangerous weapon, a third-degree prison.
Homestead police Capt. Fernando Morales informed Local 10 News that “crimes against our children are not tolerated” and the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office stated the case is open and set for trial subsequent month.
However, the perpetrator was once approved to go back to faculty.
“I think it is insane, I think it is crazy,” Godbolt stated. “I do think everyone has a right to an education but at what risk? At what risk do we have to separate the safety of our children and the education of our children?”
Godbolt stated she feels the coed must be at a psychological well being facility as an alternative.
Another father or mother, who requested now not to be known, informed Local 10 News that the suspect’s go back to faculty has made other people uncomfortable.
“He shouldn’t be allowed back,” that father or mother says.
A Florida Charter School Alliance spokesperson informed Local 10 News that it is looking ahead to expulsion authorization from Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
In the interim, the spokesperson stated the perpetrator is being escorted from class to class.
Godbolt referred to as that “upsetting and discouraging.”
“The student still has to go to the restroom, the student still has to go to lunch, during dismissal, is someone always with this child?” she requested. “So that is my concern, although you are separating them, you can’t guarantee that someone will be with that child 24/7 throughout the school day.”
Godbolt stated, “There are so many different scenarios that have happened here in Florida with children being harmed and faculty being harmed that better policies should be in place.”
An MDCPS spokesperson stated in a observation that the district “is following appropriate laws and policy related to this matter.”
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