‘I felt like I was going to die’: 13-year-old says she was stabbed 7 times by another student with pocket knife at Texas City ISD school

TEXAS CITY, Texas – Bandages now cowl a number of areas on a 13-year-old Texas Metropolis ISD pupil’s arms, again, and face.

“I felt like I used to be going to die,” she mentioned.

Royalty instructed KPRC 2 that she feels week as she was recovers at her house in Texas Metropolis. She says she was stabbed a number of occasions by one other Sarah Giles Center College pupil utilizing a pocket knife.

“I began backing up, after which they began coming in the direction of me,” she recalled. “When she swung, I swung again. And as we began preventing, she began stabbing me.”

Royalty says the struggle lasted round quarter-hour earlier than workers was in a position to break it up. She says she requested them to name an ambulance, however they took her to the varsity nurse’s workplace as a substitute.

“They began placing alcohol and stuff on me and cleansing me up,” she recalled.

“Y’all didn’t even try to attempt to name the EMS,” Royalty’s mom Christina Adkins mentioned. “Y’all waited to even name me.”

A spokesperson with Texas Metropolis ISD says the process was adopted.

She says the varsity nurse offered preliminary first support and referred to as the mom to see about getting transport to the hospital. The spokesperson mentioned it occurred on the finish of the varsity day, and the mom was already within the parking zone to select up her daughter.

However Adkins mentioned she questioned the nurse as soon as she noticed her daughter’s accidents.

“I used to be like, ‘However, why you didn’t name the EMS?’ and he or she was like, ‘I solely did what they instructed me to do,’” Adkins mentioned.

Now, she’s demanding accountability.

“No person has apologized,” she mentioned. “No person mentioned nothing. All people retains reaching out asking, from the varsity district, do we’d like something. Sure, some justice.”

The college district says the teenager who assaulted Royalty was arrested and is going through felony prices.

The college has quickly put in metallic detectors and so they have counselors obtainable.