14 DAY TRIAL // Amazing Johnson had part of her finger severed after accidentally getting it caught in a door. Even if the top of her pinky was resting in a bag of ice, the school's principal didn't find it pressing enough to call 911, she took her to the school nurse instead, and waited for the parents.
The school called Amazing's mother and explained that her little girl had been injured, but fine, with the school nurse taking care of her. “She told me a piece of her finger was off and I just dropped the phone and hung up,” Latesha Coleman, the 6-year-old's mother says, according to Fox 26.
The woman freaked out, like any parent would do, and rushed to the school to take the girl to the emergency room and reattach the top of her finger. Because of the waiting period, the doctors were not able to assure the woman that her daughter's fingertip will be completely healed.
After the incident, the school nurse administered first aid and noted that the child must go to the hospital. Instead of calling the emergency services, the principal decided to wait for the mother to take Amazing herself. When asked about her decision, the headmistress said “She didn't feel like it was an emergency,” but they would have called 911 if they hadn't reached Ms. Coleman.
The principal didn't seem to believe that a 6-year-old's severed fingertip in an ice bag was reason enough to ask for emergency services.
In this particular type of injuries, the faster the part is reattached to its place, the bigger the chances of full recovery are, so the time the school waited for the mother would have been better spent trying to reattach the child's pinky top in the surgery room.
“How is this not an emergency and her finger is in a bag, I'm thinking maybe a child has to be dead and that's the only way to call 911,” Latesha Coleman said. If the school had called 911 first, the little girl's chances of recovery wouldn't have been so uncertain.