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Boy Beat Down In Sugar Town
posted (January 4, 2018)
Also in Orange Walk, a mother is pleading for justice after a man fractured her son's skull on New Years Day. 11 year old Jahmar Ferguson and his cousins were walking to a friend's house in Trial Farm when another man threw a stone at a nearby house. Two men from the house came out and went after Ferguson -thinking he had thrown the rock. According to the report, one of the men held the boy down and the other struck him in the head with an object. After the incident, someone called a family member because he was unconscious and bleeding out. It is a vicious attack on a child and today his mother, Patricia Hendricks told us that all she wants is for her little boy to recover and for the men to pay for this monstrous act.

Patricia Hendricks, Mother
"On New Year's Night after 8:00 my two sons with their two cousins left to visit a friend of theirs. While on the way to the friend, two guys passed in front of them and threw a stone in a yard and ran. They didn't run because it was not them so afterwards, they continue walking and they heard someone in the yard say "I will get them right now" so two broke away at first and my little son and the next one when he listen again the man spoke in an ignorant voice, he said "you come here right now."

Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"He told that to your 11 year old son?"

Patricia Hendricks, Mother
"Yes so later on he and the next cousin decide to run in a nearby yard to hide but obviously the man saw where they went and he said he grabbed him and the man said I got him, I got him so when the man held him he said it wasn't me I didn't throw any stone."

"All that he felt was a quick bang in his head when he feel it he feel blood."

"He was to do a cat scan and it shows that the skull is cracked and fractured and he had bleeding so later on he had to do emergency surgery. Right now my baby is in there fighting for his life and they people just the out there, they set of dogs because that is how I will call them right now. And he can't even feel his left leg I mean come on people, one simple stone to take a life that doesn't make any sense I just want justice for my baby because this is not right, this is unfair."

"He is a really joyful and energetic kid to see him lying down for just a simple reason like this doesn't make any sense."

Courtney Weatherburne
"And for something he didn't do."

Patricia Hendricks, Mother
"Even he for something he didn't do."

Sasha Thomas, Aunt
"I just want justice for my little nephew because it really hurts to come see him like this and I just want the public to know it was chance and it was 50-50 with my nephew with his life and I really want the media to know that we are really really, really fighting for justice right now for my nephew."

Ferguson had been in a coma but he is now responding. He was injured to the head and his leg and the doctors are closely monitoring his condition. The family says that the police have already gotten a statement from Ferguson. We will keep following this case.

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