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Durban - A Chatsworth schoolboy faces the prospect of being paralysed from the waist down after two bullies used a dangerous manoeuvre copied from a popular TV wrestling show, and drove his head into the ground.

Zhain Abu-Baker, 18, has been in hospital for more than a week and was due to undergo a spine operation on Wednesday, which would determine if he will be able to walk again.

He said he was attacked three times last Monday by a pair of school pupils who unleashed a flurry of blows to his face and kicks to the torso that had left him dazed and out of breath.

In the last attack he was subjected to a wrestling move known as the “Tombstone Piledriver”, which was made popular by The Undertaker, a professional wrestler from WWE.

But the ground was not a yielding canvas, it was concrete paving.

The Grade 11 Marklands Secondary School pupil recalled the incident from his hospital bed, saying he had no idea why they singled him out for attack.


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“I have been lying on this bed for the past week, trying to remember if I had somehow offended them,” he said.

“I could see trouble was written all over their faces when they were approaching me, but I wasn’t too concerned about it because I knew I hadn’t done anything to them.”

Abu-Baker said the two were notorious for bullying and assaulting other schoolchildren.

The attacks on him started outside a classroom, and then moved to the assembly area after he was chased around the school.

“A friend of mine came to intervene and I thought that was the end of it,” he said. “I was then attacked after school.”

He said his attackers taunted him and “that’s when they started toying with me and doing some wrestling moves and the last thing I remember was being upside down and being subjected to the ‘Tombstone Piledriver’ on the concrete (paving)”.

He said that was when he lost consciousness and remembered waking up with pain in his back and neck.

The piledriver was one of the most dangerous wrestling moves and had been banned by many associations and federations across the world, said Kobus Erasmus, of the African Punishment Wrestling Association.

“The impact of the piledriver is so bad, a person might end up with a cracked skull, a broken neck or even die as a result of it,” he said.

“You have to understand that the move requires someone to be upside down, with their head between someone’s thighs, and being dropped on their head, with the weight of his body resting on it (the head). It’s very dangerous and we don’t recommend it at all.”

Erasmus was shocked by the Chatsworth incident and could not believe that such a dangerous manoeuvre had been performed by schoolchildren with the intention to hurt each other.

Abu-Baker’s grandfather, Bobby Moodley, said his grandson sustained serious injuries that include fractured fourth and fifth vertebrae and might end up being paralysed from the waist down.

“The doctor told us he might not be able to walk after the operation,” Moodley said. “I just want to know what the school is going to do about the boys who attacked him because we know nothing has been done and they haven’t been suspended.

“We opened the (criminal) case against the boys who injured Zhain and we hope something will be done to make sure they learn their lesson.”

Moodley said he was heartbroken when he saw Zhain in an induced coma for two days because of the excruciating pain he was experiencing.

Police spokesman, Captain Thulani Zwane, confirmed that a case of common assault had been lodged and that police were investigatingr.

Marklands principal, Anwar Khan, said the matter was also under investigation and would be tabled before a school tribunal.

“We have set up the necessary operations to make sure this matter is resolved,” Khan said.

Muzi Mahlambi, spokesman for the KZN Department of Education, said the school would have to deal with the matter.

“We condemn any form of violence at schools especially bullying, no matter how passive it may be,” he said.

“We want the parents, teachers, and students to play an active role in ensuring these kinds of acts are brought to an end.”

Mahlambi said it was the responsibility of pupils and parents to uphold the code of conduct at schools.

Tim Gordon, of the School Governing Body Forum, said schools should do more to avoid bullying.

“Schools have to take the precaution to guarantee that bullying or violence does not exist within a learning environment,” he said.

“If such an incident occurs, the school needs to provide support to the affected student and take action against the perpetrator. However, precaution needs to be taken because there may be underlying factors that the school is not aware of. The (perpetrators) might be bullied at home or might be abused.”

In January, a survey conducted by research company Pondering Panda revealed that one out of two children stood a chance of being bullied.

Pupils from more than 2 000 schools across the country participated in the survey, which found that more than 50 percent admitted to being bullied while 68 percent expressed concern about being physically assaulted or threatened with a weapon at school.

More than 50 percent of pupils interviewed in KwaZulu-Natal admitted to being verbally abused by other pupils while more than 25 percent admitted to having been physically bullied.

A recent National School Violence Study revealed that one in five South African secondary school pupils is a victim of bullying, including assault, robbery, and cyber bullying.

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Sometimes bullies need a lesson.
Back in primary school we had a nasty bully who would pick on anybody.
One day I was the target, but I happened to be in a bad mood, the imbecile jumped on my back.
I grabbed his one arm and threw him off, but forgot to let go of his arm.
He landed up on the floor with a broken arm.

There was peace in the land from that day on.
 
These bastards need to be detained and charged with attempted murder.

But on the other hand, they mention they were known as bullies and this wasn't the first incident where they assaulted other pupils. So the question is, why didn't the school do something about this earlier? Why wait until the worst happens? And why are they still going to school? They should have been expelled.
 
Bar Bullies, A few years ago, we had a big Slav okie at the local pub, always thought it was funny to sneak up on you at the bar and backslap you onto the bar counter... he thought it was hilarious, nobody else did, and nobody challenged him.... On Saturday morning, (yes, we do drink on Saturday mornings up here), I was in the pub, standing at the bar counter..... spotted his reflection in the mirror behind the barmaid ..... he was creeping up behind me.... and as he raised his hand up to make contact with my back, I swung around and gripped him tightly under his armpit.... sure it stank, but I just squeezed and kept on squeezing, dropped him to his knees, shouted some flower type words at him and released, turned back to my drink.... 5 minutes later, he bought me another beer.... never bitched slapped anyone again, we became good friends after that.......

Point being, 90% of all bullies are allowed to get away with it, when confronted head on, they turn yellow.... all you wife beaters out there know what I am talking about.....

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This is just wrong on so many levels!! Little snotneus idiots!! If this was my child I would have ripped those lil tw@ts' b@lls out!!
 
Zewp said:
These bastards need to be detained and charged with attempted murder.

But on the other hand, they mention they were known as bullies and this wasn't the first incident where they assaulted other pupils. So the question is, why didn't the school do something about this earlier? Why wait until the worst happens? And why are they still going to school? They should have been expelled.
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The school's hands are tied by the bloody department. You can only request expulsion, and it's very rarely granted. Only in EXTREME cases after multiple disciplinary hearings. The little twats bring lawyers which the school is not allowed to do, and the department representative is almost always on the kids side.
 
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Bullying is just one of those things that people turn a blind eye to. Even parents.
 
Grade 11? Trial them as adults ... if successful put a blown up memo up in every school with their picture and a summary of what happend to the perps. Maybe a headline "ARE YOU READY FOR JAIL? BULLY SOMEONE AND FIND OUT!"
 
grantza said:
Sometimes bullies need a lesson.
Back in primary school we had a nasty bully who would pick on anybody.
One day I was the target, but I happened to be in a bad mood, the imbecile jumped on my back.
I grabbed his one arm and threw him off, but forgot to let go of his arm.
He landed up on the floor with a broken arm.

There was peace in the land from that day on.
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Zangief Kid ? :p :D
 
shame, that is quite sad. If this was my child, Id be the one going to jail if he couldnt walk.

Also if I ever catch my child bullying people whatever the reason is, he will get it back 100x as much, if he bullies people cos they look funny, guess what, his hair and clothes are going to look ridiculous the next day. Punches people or physically harms people then he will be getting one huge klap until he learns not to, I do not mind him knocking the crap outta someone if he is defending himself but there are also limits, no piledrivers, thats just shocking.

I still blame this on the fact that teachers cannot discipline naughty kids the way they need to be disciplined. Moaning and detention does absolutely nothing. I just blanked it out when i was a kid and never rocked up for the detentions, but heaven help word got to my parents though, then i was in huge ****. Teachers should be allowed to smack kids as discipline, you cant have an 18yo running around doing WWE moves and not expect someone bigger or older to come give him a good klap on the ass. but this will be debated by every parent, I do not mean abuse the kids, I simply mean take a good whip and clap the kid on the bum so he hopefully learns a lesson. but again will be debated by many.
 
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Kind of how I feel. If you're going to intentionally hurt someone, then you should be disciplined for it. Unfortunately, that's not how it goes. While the victim is in hospital trying to get the damage repaired, the bully is treated to a few sessions of guidance counselling to figure out the problem. That doesn't help when your kid has to have therapy for the next few months and more operations in his future.
 
O highschool memories. I was bullied like hell and couldn't do anything about it. Sad really because the bullies were old and even most teachers were afraid of them because of their reputation in the community. some jail time here and there for them didn't seem to help until they got expelled after3 years. I did manage to kick one of them in the face recently thanks to the stellar job that drugs can do to a well built man
 
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Why have they not been named and shamed and then [-]criminally charged [/-]? I see a criminal charge has been laid

Bullying is an absolute scourge.

At high school there was a big kid who bullied everyone he could lay his hands on - one day, on the sportsfield I picked up out of the corner of my eye that I was being rushed - dropped down, planted both feet on his tummy / torso, used his momentum against him, and he went flying overhead, landed on his face, ate a chunk of grass, and he never fcked with anyone again.
 
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I recall kids being tombstoned voluntarily at school :o
 
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