OK. School fight leaves one student with a fractured bone near his eye

Joseph Skinner, 12, told his mother that before school Tuesday another student jumped on top of him and hit him several times before someone came and stopped the fight.

Joseph’s mother, Danielle Davis, took her son to the family pediatrician, but the injuries to his eye were more severe than initially suspected.

Joseph was taken by ambulance to The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center for emergency surgery Tuesday night.

“They removed bones and inserted a plastic plate to help his eye bone grow back together,” Davis said.

She said Joseph could have some nerve and muscle damage but that doctors were optimistic the procedure went well.

Davis said the police didn’t take her complaint of an assault on her son seriously Tuesday.

“I was told to come up to the police department in the morning to press charges,” Davis said.

Davis said she didn’t go because she was in Oklahoma City with her son. Police told her Wednesday the suspect was in custody.

Kidney said police let the school handle fights, but when someone is injured, it rises to the level of a police report.

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