The 8-year-old Bronx boy accused of slashing a classmate across the neck with a razor could find himself facing a Family Court judge as early as Thursday. The tiny terror will be arraigned on juvenile assault and weapons possession charges for allegedly wounding a 9-year-old boy at Public School 132. Click below to read the rest of the story.
The victim, Richard McKinney, needed six stitches to close the deep gash on the back of his neck he got in the schoolyard.
This “is not a high-incident school,†Margie Feinberg, spokeswoman for the Board of Education, insisted Wednesday.
But even before Tuesday’s razor attack, kids at the Morrisania-section school were so out of control Principal Anissa Chalmers canceled the big graduation ceremony for the fifth graders as punishment.
And Chalmers herself is being probed by the BOE’s Office of Special Investigations — but apparently not for anything related to the slashing.
“There is an allegation against the principal that is being investigated,†Feinberg said. “We cannot comment further. There have been no substantiated cases.â€
Feinberg conceded there have been other “incidents of fighting†at P.S. 132 this year.
This is also the school where two secretaries were busted for stealing $200,000 and blowing the dough on clothes and other goodies.
And it’s the school that was sued two years ago after administrators sicced police on a third-grader who had tussled with a classmate — and marched the child off in handcuffs like a common criminal before her stunned classmates.
“My grandson will not be coming here in September,†a disgusted Dora Casiano said as she picked up her 8-year-old grandson Malachi. “He’ll be going somewhere else.â€
Frances Marrero, a 10-year-old student, said bullying runs rampant at the school and last year she was stabbed in the finger with a pencil by another kid.
“I see people calling people names and sometimes the bullies hit people,†she said.
Police have not named the little Bronx slasher. But both boys involved in the incident claim to be victims of bullying.
In an interview with WABC-TV on Tuesday, McKinney said he spoke to his alleged attacker.
“I said, ‘What are you doing with that? You’re not supposed to have that in school,’ †said McKinney, who also suffered a cut to his hand.
