BOSTON — A Boston family is demanding answers from school officials after a 7-year-old girl was slashed with a razor blade during recess but wasn’t sent to a hospital when she wouldn’t stop bleeding.
Several razor blades were found Marrahunt Elementary School property, Boston Public Schools confirmed to Boston 25 News, but beyond that, the family said there are several unanswered questions.
Marley Desruisseaux said it was a classmate who slashed her after finding the razor under a bench.
“She did it soft to the other kids and when it was me she like cut my skin open,” Marley said. “When she did it she did that to me and I was like, ‘Ow!’”
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Her cut is deep, too. She needed 11 stiches to close the wound to her hand.
Francia Rigueur, Marley’s aunt, said the family was given limited information about what happened when school officials called her to come pick Marley up in the nurse’s office.
“Come to find out she wouldn’t stop bleeding,” she said. “If she’s bleeding, why didn’t you feel the urge to call an ambulance?”
As for the razor, Marley’s family is now on a quest to find out how it got there and how it went unnoticed.
“I need to know she’s safe in school and I don’t. She’s done, today is not the last day of school but physically she’s done. I will not send her back there because she’s not safe,” Rigueur said.
School officials say the Boston Public Health Commission was called out to the school and with assistance from police all of the razors were collected.
“We instruct our custodians to search the grounds of our school daily to look for objects such as needles, razors, or other paraphernalia,” a robocall to parents said. “The incident occurred on the outer-portion of our property, and we will increase our searches in this area going forward.”
School officials said that in addition to the razor blades, several nails were also found on school property.
Officials also said the school nurses followed the proper protocol for Marley's cut, because they did not believe the injury rose to the level of requiring an ambulance call.