Sacramento Mom Says Elementary School Was Slow To Notify Her Of Child’s Broken Leg

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A pupil broke her limb successful the Ethel Baker Elementary School successful Sacramento, and her parent says the schoolhouse was dilatory to interaction some her and exigency responders.

“It was stinging and burning astatine the aforesaid time,” says Maria Gutierrez, sixth-grader astatine Ethel Baker Elementary.

On Tuesday, Maria fell successful her schoolyard breaking her fibula, tibia and ankle.

“When I fell, I heard a crack,” she said.

Maria and her parent accidental unit was dilatory to respond arsenic she was lying successful the garden.

“The unit members kept repeating it wasn’t that serious, that she’s going to get up,” said ma Genevieve Valdez. “And aft 20 minutes, they decided it was serious.”

Valdez says unit was hesitant to telephone her oregon an ambulance.

“I got a telephone astatine 10:08 and 9-1-1 got a telephone astatine 10:08,” she said.

Valdez claims much than 20 minutes went by from the clip the school’s main says her girl fell.

“Why would you beryllium determination and ticker it?” Valdez said. “I personally could not ticker a kid spell done symptom for 1 minute.”

Valdez says a schoolyard worker took matters into her ain hands.

“She believed my girl was connected the level for mode excessively long,” she said. “Yes, she stepped retired and adjacent though she knew she’d get successful trouble, she said ‘Yes, I person to basal up for her.’ ”

Valdez lives conscionable crossed the thoroughfare from Ethel Baker Elementary and ran implicit and rushed her kid to UC Davis Medical Center.

“Accidents happen. No 1 is to blame, but wherefore did they beryllium there?” she questioned.

We scope retired to the Sacramento City Unified School District to inquire astir exigency aesculapian protocols. A spokesperson for the territory wrote, successful part:

“Based connected interviews of pupil witnesses and adults who responded to assistance the student, and reappraisal of video footage of the event, it appears that the schoolhouse took due and timely action.”

But Mom says she asked to spot the surveillance video and was lone shown a information of it.

“I privation the video truthful she tin play it retired 20 minutes of her screaming. I emotion this school, I conscionable privation I could spot the radical successful it,” Valdez said.

The schoolhouse territory says the occurrence section and paramedics did yet get connected the country and helped spot Maria successful her mom’s car.

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Maria volition apt beryllium backmost up and walking successful astir six weeks. In the meantime, her ma is considering pulling her retired of schoolhouse permanently.