Schoolgirl tells of stabbing trauma

An emotional Port Elizabeth girl stabbed in the face for her cellphone this week, recounted the harrowing ordeal to The Herald yesterday.

Sharoné Alkensteast, 15, of Swartkops, a Grade 9 pupil at Andrew Rabie High School, was stabbed below the left eye when three boys robbed her of her cellphone while she was waiting for a bus outside the school.

Sharoné had just walked away from talking to one of her friends and was waiting for a bus when “three guys in their teens saw her carrying a cellphone”, said her angry mother Sharon.

“They told her to give them the cellphone and she refused, so they stabbed her in her face, under her left eye.”

The incident happened on Wednesday at about 2.20pm. After the ordeal Sharoné was rushed to Netcare Greenacres Hospital where she was examined and later discharged. A sobbing Sharoné said: “It‘s unfair. They took something which didn‘t belong to them. It belongs to me ... and he stabbed me in my face.”

Sharon said she‘d feared her daughter wouldn‘t be able to see when she got a message she was stabbed in the face.

“I‘m sick and tired of crime.

You could see yourself killing someone with your bare hands,” said Sharon, who‘s Dolphin Street house was broken into two years ago. She said school pupils were being targeted by attackers because “they‘re soft targets”.

“What if they‘d killed her?” asked an angry Sharon. “At the moment we don‘t know how much damage has been caused to the eye. She can‘t see with the left eye because it‘s swollen.

The doctor we consulted is worried. He told us that there could be some damage to the eye.” Police spokesman Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg, said:

“A case of armed robbery is being investigated. All three suspects, aged 23, have been arrested already.”