Florida Student’s Skull Broken After Attack By School Employee, Supervisor Arrested For Neglect

A Florida school supervisor has been arrested following another employee’s physical altercation with a 12-year-old student that left the child’s skull fractured at the AMIkids Pinellas school for at-risk children in St. Petersburg. Jarvis Delon West, 28, was working as a behavioral interventionist at the time of the Feb. 11 incident that involved a subordinate, and was cited for child neglect for not reporting what had happened.

The boy is said to have been “body slammed” after reportedly “acting out” at lunch.

“A behavioral interventionist redirected the student to the 'Room of Opportunity' where a physical altercation transpired,” the Pinellas Park police statement on the incident said. “As a result of the altercation, the victim started to vomit and it is believed that he lost consciousness on more than one occasion.”

The student was eventually sent home a few hours later with a trash can in case he continued to throw up. The child’s mother was not told immediately about the altercation. Later, the boy was taken to All Children’s Hospital where he was diagnosed with a fractured skull, two subdermal hematomas and a brain bleed. All were determined to have been caused in the incident.

West was later arrested on charges of failure to report child neglect and neglect of a child resulting in great bodily harm. The employee involved in the altercation itself has not yet been charged, but further arrests in the case were expected. The employee is described as 5-foot-7, weighing 300 pounds. The student weighs around 100 pounds.

“Another co-worker body slammed the boy,” Pinellas County Sheriff's Deputy Travis Sibley said in a statement to NBC News. “[West] should have been the one who called it in. But he didn't, contributing to the child neglect.”

AMIkids has said that it are “cooperating fully” with the investigation into the incident.