Two more youths charged after student attacked outside Kitchener high school
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Two male youths have been charged after a student was jumped outside a Kitchener high school, sending him to hospital with multiple gashes to his head and neck.
A 14-year-old student was assaulted by a group of other students outside Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute on Wednesday after school.
Staff at the school were able to stop the attack, but the victim was taken to hospital with multiple injuries including four gashes to the forehead, neck and back of the head, a swollen jaw, a blackened eye, two chipped teeth and a concussion, along with other scrapes and bruises all over his body.
Two youths — one boy and one girl — were charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit assault last week. The male youth was also charged with assault.
On Monday, police said two more male youths had also been charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit assault.
Victim healing well, but not going back to school
The boy's mother, Sabrina Brezin, said she wanted the students involved to be expelled.
She told CBC News the Waterloo Region District School Board's zero tolerance policy for violence "is seriously lacking in actually following through with zero tolerance."
"Zero tolerance should mean exactly that. Zero," she said. "This attack was vicious and brutal and should result in nothing less than expulsion."
In a statement, the school board said it is investigating what happened.
"We want our schools to be safe spaces for all of our students. Violence is completely unacceptable and we will not tolerate it. While we cannot comment on individual cases of student discipline, in situations such as these we typically begin investigations and expulsion procedures," the school board said in a statement sent to CBC News by spokesperson Lynsey Slupeiks.
On Monday, Brezin said her son, Cameron, is healing well and is in good spirits.
Still, she said he has not returned to school and "he will likely not be returning for the rest of this school year."