Hato Hone St John said it took a patient to Waikato Hospital \u201cin a serious condition\u201d.<\/p>\n
The mother posted on social media on Thursday morning, \u201cin the hope that this can be shared\u201d and deliver some answers for her son.<\/p>\n
In the post, shared 1136 times, she wrote her son went to get something from his car during his lunch break when the assault happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of nowhere, two carloads of men wearing balaclavas pulled up right in the middle of the main road outside his kura.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey tried to kidnap him \u2014 smashing into him and stabbing him multiple times,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
She said her son had surgery and was still in hospital, though he was \u201crecovering well\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as a wh\u0101nau, we\u2019re completely shaken and honestly have no idea who or why anyone would do this.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy boy has just turned 16 \u2014 he\u2019s such a humble, soft, gentle giant \u2014 and this has left us absolutely heartbroken and confused.”<\/p>\n
Despite her disbelief about the incident, she had a conciliatory message to the perpetrators.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are involved, or if you know something, please understand that we are an open, loving wh\u0101nau \u2014 if there\u2019s something to be sorted or a misunderstanding, we\u2019re open to k\u014drero and understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe saddest part of all this is that our own people are doing this to our own people. Let\u2019s be better.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s do better wh\u0101nau, we need more love, not hate.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also said Fraser High School was not to blame.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis, I believe, is not connected to the kura in any way, and my boys truly love their school and the teachers there.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, Fraser High School principal Virginia Crawford sent a message to parents, praising emergency services, staff and students.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 12.36pm today, a serious incident involving one of our students occurred on Waimarie St during Break 2,\u201d the note reads.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur school medical team responded immediately and with great professionalism.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are also proud of our students, who behaved calmly, kept themselves safe, and showed great respect for the student and the first responders from the school.\u201d<\/p>\n
The note said the school was supporting the police investigation. The \u201csafety and wellbeing\u201d of the students remained the school\u2019s \u201ctop priority\u201d, and support was available through the school\u2019s \u201cHauora Centre\u201d.<\/p>\n
Waikato Herald approached the school for further comment.<\/p>\n
Police are investigating and said on Friday afternoon there had been no update.<\/p>\n
Danielle Zollickhofer is the Waikato news director and a multimedia journalist at the Waikato Herald. She joined NZME in 2021 and is based in Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hato Hone St John said it took a patient to Waikato Hospital \u201cin a serious condition\u201d. The mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18431,74,38864,5761,17704,21818,2837,2082,21170,8531,2959,11551,15415,1073,6178,3180,111,43,139,69,90,4062,1238,72212,1072,15163,1337],"class_list":["post-98059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-16yearold","tag-after","tag-answers","tag-appeals","tag-assault","tag-desperate","tag-during","tag-for","tag-fraser","tag-hamiltons","tag-high","tag-hours","tag-information","tag-media","tag-mother","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-school","tag-serious","tag-shaken","tag-social","tag-stabbing","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}