From Fox affiliate in Houston:
By
Alexander Supgul, Digital Content Manager - bio
On May 20 during recess at KIPP Academy, David Rodriguez says he
quite nearly strangled to death.
"I thought I was going to die and I was not going to see my
Mom, my Dad and my sister," said Rodriguez.
David's mother, Zulma Rodriguez, insists her 3rd grader was
persuaded by classmates to put a string around his neck and stand beneath a
tree on a cinder block - a block that was knocked away.
"The kids were just laughing at him, just laughing and
laughing and he said he was struggling to take it off," said Zulma.
David says after the passage of 20 terrifying seconds he managed
to break free and preserve his life. Photographs of his neck clearly show rope
burns.
Four weeks later his mother is still angry that no grownups at
KIPP intervened.
"I want them to be like more responsible. I mean, where
were the teachers during that time? They were supposed to be watching
them," said Zulma.
KIPP
says it is cooperating with the Rodriguez's but has not determined where the
thin rope came from. . . .
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