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Fifty-year-old
Elgin High
School teacher stabbed multiple times by a
student has been released from the hospital, officials revealed.
Carolyn Gilbert, a family and consumer sciences teacher of
Bloomingdale suffered multiple non-life-threatening wounds in the neck and once
near the eye when stabbed by a 16-year-old male student Friday morning, said
Elgin Police Lt. Cecil Smith, according to the Chicago Tribune.
She was initially treated at Sherman
Hospital in Elgin
but later transferred to the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, from where she
was released Sunday. She lost vision in one eye because of the attack.
“We’re ensure right now if the (blindness) is temporary or
permanent,” Elgin Area School District U-46’s Chief communications officer Tony
Sanders said for the Chicago Daily Herald.
The event happened in a classroom about 11 a.m., 15 minutes
after students had been dismissed on the last day of final exams. There were no
witnesses, but another teacher intervened and held the student until police
arrived, officials said, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Officials at Elgin-based Unit School District
46 are investigating how it was possible for the student to enter the school
with a weapon as students are randomly checked for weapons with a
metal-detector wand. They will review security measures after the peculiar event
happened Friday.
As for the boy, he has been charged with aggravated battery
with a weapon and aggravated battery to a person known to be a teacher and is
currently held at the Cook County Juvenile
Temporary Detention
Center in Chicago. A Hearing is scheduled for him today.
He has been suspended from the school, pending an expulsion hearing with the
school board.
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