Rant!!!...To want to call the Police...well I'm just really angry..what the heck!!

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My daughters wrist has been broken by a boy at school!!...I'm so angry ..he laughed while she was crying ..

That’s awful - I hope the police take this seriously!

It sounds to me much more like it was generalised messing about than what the OP described in the first place he may have been laughing because they were larking around and she shouldn't have sprayed him it might be best to talk to the school but not to go to the police.

That would be a permanent exclusion at my dcs' school.

Another vote for call police on 101. Just because it happened at school does not mean they get to deal with or be informed first. If it had happened in a park or shopping centre, you'd call the police without hesitation.
Also I would do it as you say the school is prone to sweep things under the carpet.
He is old enough to know that violence is not acceptable.

Definitely call the police this morning op, I understand why you didn't last night, like you said, the outcome wouldn't be any different, no one was going to come out & wake your daughter in the middle of the night for a statement! Please don't let her play it down & let him get away with it though, tell her from all of us that no one has the right to treat her that way!
And to the poster who said it doesn't sound like a crime or GBH, what? Just what the fuck?

Ignore SoupDragon. Call the police on 101.

So he was spraying water, dropped the bottle, DD sprayed him back. He didn’t like his own medicine so ratcheted it up to violence then laughed about it.

Call police.

Hope your scan goes well tomorrow and your DD recovers soon

It sounds to me much more like it was generalised messing about
If generalised messing about results in broken bones and the culprit laughing in utter lack of remorse it needs severely dealing with. The boy needs to understand how serious his general messing about is before he generally messes about outside of school with the wrong people and someone gets seriously injured or worse. It needs nipping in the bud now.

Messing around does not result in an aimed kick with such force and height that it breaks a bone! Spraying each other with water is messing around, deliberately kicking anyone with that kind of force crosses over every line and is most definitely assault! If this is not reported then what next? A kick in the head when he is 'messing about' with boys at school?

I doubt very much none had any attention whatsoever of seriously injuring the DD and clearly dodnthave any idea he'd done any more than made it hurt

I strongly disagree with you. It takes a lot of force to kick somone hard enough to break their wrist and the fact he laughed at her when she was in pain and crying says it all.

This boy could go on to hurt someone else, and more seriously. It’s a crime all day long and he needs to be dealt with by the police.

I’m shocked at the women on here justifying and minimising a serious assault. Fortunately the majority are in agreement that this is a police matter.

If it was just friendly messing about then I would imagine the culprit would have been mortified to see her in tears.

He wasn't. He didn't care.

It's assault

I am not minimising anything. I am viewing it from the point of view of what would be the best result for everyone. I don't think a conviction for assault would make any positive difference to the OP's DD at all, other punishment from the school would be far more relevant to her. I don't think a conviction for assault would make any positive difference to the boy, in fact it would be more likely to be detrimental. What he needs is punishment that actually teaches him an immediate lesson and I do not believe a conviction for assault is that punishment. Being warned about it by the police and sanctions by the school would have far more relevance to him.

At no point have I suggested he should not be punished or that he was OK to kick the DD.

And I actually disagree that it would have to be a forcible kick to break a bone, I think an "unlucky" combination of angle force and other circumstances could do it. I have seen lots of "unlucky breaks" amongst DC's friends. Again, I am not saying he was wrong and I'm not saying he isn't nasty.

Call police at that age he's accountable for his actions. Hope your DD is feeling better soon x

How did you get on today? Have the police got back you?

And I hope everything goes well tomorrow.

How is your daughter OP? what a nightmare, what did the police say?

Good luck at the hospital today OP.

Severe lack of commom sense and judgment on this thread .DD was using a water bottle to chuck water at lad.Lad tried to kick it out of her hand and missed connecting with her wrist instead .It is 2-sided horse play that has gone wrong, as horseplay so often does.gone wrong. The laugh may have been a nervous reaction to what he had done.

Twas t'other hand.... and spraying water and kicking someone are entirely different!

I'm a bit over-invested in this (and nosey). I hope OP comes back and tells us how she got on with the police and the school.

Bananamanfan

WTF Your poor sister. He sounds like a psychopath

Yes, it's a criminal matter. It's not just common assault as it resulted in a broken bone, I think it's the next one up from that. You could be saving the thug from himself in the future.

Twas t'other hand.... and spraying water and kicking someone are entirely different!
Well they are both classed as assault.But I suspect the boy was aiming to kick the bottle out of her hand.Kicking a waist height moving target was not going to be an exact science and I guess the Op's DD and her hands were moving about as she shook the bottle and probably chased him with it.

But he started it by spraying her... or was that some other boy? And a spray of water is vastly different from lashing out enough to break bones then being unrepentant.

They are both classed as assault? So if I go into a police station and complain that someone sprayed a water bottle at me they'll take it seriously? I think that is highly unlikely.