The Tribune

By LETRE SWEETING

Tribune Staff Reporter

lsweeting@tribunemedia.net

DEPUTY Police Commissioner Leamond Deleveaux said an investigation into the alleged beating of several Bimini Primary School students earlier this year is almost complete.

“That matter is before the Complaints and Corruption Branch and you should be hearing from us very shortly,” he told reporters on Friday.

In March, an officer reportedly beat several students on their bottom and legs, leaving them with black and blue marks. Some students’ parents sent photos of the bruises to The Tribune.

Davaria Sherman, the mother of an 11-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten, said yesterday that police had still not contacted her with an update on the investigation.

“I honestly feel like they’re trying to sweep it under the rug, but I can’t say for sure,” she said in May.

She said she had warned school administrators not to beat her son on his hip because he has Pelvic Kidney, a condition that affects the position of his kidney.

In May, another parent, Tanishka Sands, said she reached out to officials for an update on the investigation but got nowhere.

“I haven’t heard anything from the police, social services, nor education,” she said at the time. “I reached out to education about a week ago, and nothing. They didn’t say anything, and nobody contacted me.”

The school’s principal was reassigned after the incident. Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said the alleged beating was inconsistent with the ministry’s policies.