Last October there was a story on the news about a 12 year-old girl, Shanni Naylor, who had been slashed across the face with a razorblade whilst sitting in her English class. I often wanted to stick pins in my own eyes during English lessons, but never anyone elses.

So, like most of the country I was absolutely apalled that anyone could commit such a crime (despite my memories of what a classroom-bound study of Educating Rita can make you think of doing to your fellow man). The news item said it would probably leave the poor girl with facial scars for life. And not lucrative ones like the model-dater and crooner, Seal.

However, I’ve learned today that the sympathy I so begrudgingly gave, might have been misplaced. So I might not be going soft after all.

You see, now that the case has come to court, a couple of further details have been made available. The most pertinent of which is that the girl that did the ’slashing’ was being bullied at the school, and that just 24 hours before the incident, she was beaten up in front of 100 other students by Shanni Naylor, our slashing ‘victim’. (more…)

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