An a priori innocent pitched battle with school supplies on a rainy day at a school ended tragically for a student who was nearby but did not participate. A minor lost sight in one eye last November after receiving the impact of a square thrown by a classmate and getting stuck in his eyeball, according to La Voz de Galicia, which points out that now parents are asking the school.
The young Tomás was then in the sixth grade at the Valle-Inclán de Oleiros school in the province of A Coruña. The events took place last November when, on a rainy day, the teachers took turns to watch several classrooms when the students could not go out.
The wounded student, as he points out to the Galician medium, was playing chess and, after finishing the game, he went over to see how two classmates threw squares and squares at each other at a time when they were unsupervised. Being cold, he moved "about twenty feet" to warm up next to the radiator. It was at that moment that a square hit his eye, pierced his eyelid and the eyeball began to bleed profusely.
Alerted by the screams, the teachers alerted the health services. Tomás underwent surgery at the Abente y Lago hospital in A Coruña. The wound had shattered the cornea, pupil, and lens of one of his eyes. They were admitted for three days and several operations carried out at the Institute of Ocular Microsurgery of Barcelona, with the sole objective of not being left without an eyeball.
Both parents, reports La Voz de Galicia, have been on leave since that day as the young man needs 24-hour care. "Life has changed for us," they say.
Given the communications from the school, which, according to the parents, tried to make this remain a mere "fatality", the parents decided to denounce the center before the counseling.
"We feel helpless, they offered us patrimonial compensation, yes, but we understand that this is what insurance is for. At the moment, we are running out of our savings. We insist that someone has to take responsibility. We are in the hands of a lawyer and we are not We ruled out going to the ordinary judicial route," the father told the aforementioned outlet.
