School girl  beaten, forced to drink bleach by bullies in washroom

Apr 10, 2025 News

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Pull quote: “I feel scared because she (bully) threatened me, and that’s what I am very scared about and I need justice, because my family is poor and we are not that wealthy and to be honest, I feel mostly scared to even go out anywhere.” – Victim

─ was threatened not to tell anyone

By: Christal Yong

Kaieteur News-  A 13-year-old grade-eight student, late last month, was allegedly beaten and forced to drink bleach by three classmates in a washroom at the Wakenaam Secondary School.

Kaieteur News understands that before the incident on March 31, the three school girls had been bullying the victim for some three years. Their bullying had caused her to get into trouble at school, culminating in the most recent event where she was physically harmed.

Speaking with this publication, the victim explained that on the day of the incident, she ventured to the girls’ washroom, but did not notice who was following her. She said she wasn’t concerned about the other students at the time and simply went about her business, unaware of the danger that awaited her.

The young girl explained that while exiting the washroom, the three girls blocked her.

“After they blocked my way, I said ‘excuse me, please for a pass,’ and the girl … she was in the middle and she didn’t move and then I tried pushing her out to get a pass, she didn’t move and then she chuck me back into the wall, and then after she chucked me back into the wall, she start slapping me up, but I didn’t know what I do” the teen told Kaieteur News.

She continued, “She hit me in my head and then in my stomach, when she hit me by stomach I get a hard knock, she hit me hard, after she hit me in my stomach, I got weak, and I fall to the ground.”

The victim claimed that the said bully instructed the two girls to hold her down.

“These girls hold me down, and the other girl came over me and she start slapping me up more, after she start slapping me up now, she hold my mouth, she forcefully squeezed and opened my mouth and it had a two-gallon bleach underneath the sink, and she picked up the bleach, … she throw the bleach into my mouth, and she forced me to swallow the bleach,” the teen recalled.

The student further explained that after the bullies heard teachers outside of the girls’ washroom, they let her go. However, the bully who instructed the two girls to hold the victim down threatened her saying, ‘you only tell anybody about this, I’m going to hurt you badly.’ The bully then left.

The victim attempted to spit out the remaining bleach from her mouth, quickly cleaned herself up, and returned to class, remaining silent out of fear that she might be harmed further.

Afterward, she went home and told her 38-year-old mother, Kavita Persaud, about what had happened. The mother then went to confront the bullies’ parents, but she was met with anger and dismissal.

“I went to one of the girl’s parents and I said meh don’t want no problem, I just come for find out, in grade 6, you daughter (one of the bullies) give mah daughter a hard life, Form One, they leave my daughter in a mess of a life, and now y’all in Form Two, now why y’all accusing mah daughter,” the mother told this publication.

On April 1, 2025, the mother went to school to enquire about the issue.

The mother related, “I said miss, I will like for y’all to get them students this (and) let we get at the bottom of this matter because me nah gon take it this way, I am angry about it. When we get to this office, you know when these children talk and the two teachers don’t want to listen to my daughter.”

Persaud also mentioned that the bullies claimed that the teachers sent them to follow the victim into the washroom.

Nevertheless, after discussions were held with the teachers, the mother related that her daughter who was in the class started to froth from her mouth. As such, she was rushed to West Demerara Regional Hospital, where she was admitted for four days.

The mother related that this was caused because her daughter consumed bleach on March 31.

As a result, Persaud informed this publication that an investigation had been initiated into the matter. She also stated that her daughter will be transferred to another school, as she no longer feels safe at Wakenaam Secondary School. Persaud is demanding justice for her daughter.

Efforts to obtain a comment from the Ministry of Education regarding the issue were unsuccessful.

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• bleach, Bully, fight, school girl, Wakenaam Secondary School

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