KZN Education asks parents to be vigilant after boy takes gun to school
Parents are being urged to watch and pay more attention to their children after a KZN schoolboy, who's allegedly being bullied, took his father's gun to school.
It's understood the 17-year-old stole the key to the firearm safe at their Mtubatuba home last week.
Officials were called to the school the following day after he was found with the weapon.
No one was injured.
Police say the teenager was taken into custody and charged with illegal possession of a firearm.
His father was also arrested, accused of negligence. They both appeared in court on Friday.
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The boy was released into the custody of his parents and his father was released on warning.
Social workers are now also involved in the case.
"We want to plead with all the parents that have got guns to keep them safe, away from the children and for parents to listen to whatever that they are reporting to them," says KZN Education's Muzi Mahlambi.
"It might be a minor issue to you as a parent, but the mere fact that your son or daughter is reporting that issue to you in the form of a bully means that it is worrisome to the child because we don't want a victim to become perpetrators."
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