Response to student's injury angers mother

By Daisy Huntly
Updated November 7 2012 - 1:00pm, first published May 4 2010 - 11:31pm
BROKEN: Jacinta Rochecouste,12, (pictured with her friend Amy-Lee Schodde, 12) broke her ankle at the Wagga Christian College sports carnival on Friday and has since had surgery to pin the ankle and growth bone, which was also broken. Jacinta and her mother Caroleen MacColl are upset with the college’s reaction to the accident. Picture: Glenn Henderson
BROKEN: Jacinta Rochecouste,12, (pictured with her friend Amy-Lee Schodde, 12) broke her ankle at the Wagga Christian College sports carnival on Friday and has since had surgery to pin the ankle and growth bone, which was also broken. Jacinta and her mother Caroleen MacColl are upset with the college’s reaction to the accident. Picture: Glenn Henderson

A WAGGA mother is outraged after her daughter broke her ankle and was left without medical treatment at a school sports carnival on Friday.Jacinta Rochecouste, a 12-year-old year six student at Wagga Christian College (WWCC), slipped when practising for the discus event at the school carnival on Friday morning, hurting her ankle.According to Jacinta's mother, Caroleen MacColl, Jacinta spent the rest of the day lying down at the carnival in a deep sleep and was left to her own devices to get home - but no phone calls came from the school. The school principal said yesterday that at the time, there was nothing to indicate there was something more serious than a rolled ankle.Ms MacColl said Jacinta received an ice pack, her ankle was not bandaged, and she was piggy-backed to the bus at the end of the day before a friend's mother offered to drive her home"The school had no one to really take any note of her injuries and left her to her own devices - I never got a phone call, and it happened at nine in the morning," she said.Jacinta, a budding athlete, was asleep when her mother came home from work on Friday. After coping with the pain for another day and a half, she was diagnosed on Sunday with a broken right ankle.Principal of WWCC Hugh MacCallum said yesterday the practices undertaken by staff at the carnival were the same as on any school day."As it would be at any other time, if the accident appears to be of a serious nature, we'd call an ambulance," he said yesterday."But Jacinta rolled her ankle and wasn't complaining more than (that), she was taken to the recording desk where staff were, and at no point was there anything that would suggest it was more than a rolled ankle."Mr MacCallum said he hoped to work with Ms MacColl to resolve the situation.

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