Arrest made after Florida school’s ‘behavioral interventionist’ accused of fracturing 12-year-old’s skull

The 'student' was probably a niglet. The school is for 'at-risk youth.'


A 12-year-old boy’s skull was fractured during an altercation with a behavioral interventionist at a school in Pinellas Park, police said.

The incident occurred at AMI Kids, 6500 102nd Avenue North on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

According to Pinellas Park police, the 12-year-old boy had been “acting out” at lunch, so he was put in an isolated room called the “Room of Opportunity” with 34-year-old Dontae Thomas.

Police said Thomas, a 300-pound man, used the “arm-bar” maneuver to take the 100-lb child down but ended up slamming the child on his head.

Police said the boy started vomiting and losing consciousness and was in the room for about 90 minutes. A different behavioral interventionist escorted him to a conference room, where he was under observation for about 30 minutes.
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The school supervisor that day, Jarvis Delon West, 28, then went on the bus with the boy to take him home, which is not normal protocol, and told the bus driver to go directly to the student’s house instead of the regular stop, police said. West asked the driver to make a stop along the way at another student’s house to get the boy water, and kept the trash can near the student.

Once at the injured boy’s home, West watched him go into the house but didn’t say anything to his mom about what had happened, police said.

The next day, the boy’s mom kept him home from school with what she thought was the flu. On Thursday, she took him to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. There she learned he had a skull fracture, two subdural hematomas and a brain bleed, police said.

The boy remains hospitalized in serious condition, police said.
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