Utah mom claims daughter stabbed in eye with screwdriver at school

WHITEROCKS, Utah — A Uinta County woman is threatening to take legal action against the Ute Indian Tribe for an incident involving her daughter at school Thursday. The 5-year-old was apparently stabbed with a screwdriver by another student.

The tribal police say they are investigating the incident, but haven’t provided any other information. The girl’s mother, Bobbi Redcap says it was probably an accident, but she’s upset with the school allowing it to happen.

At about 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, Taylor Wesaw, 5, was eating breakfast with her preschool classmates at the Ute Indian Tribe Head Start School.

“And at 9:07, I got a call from her school saying she had an accident,” Redcap said. “And after that I just lost it. No parent wants to hear that. They’re supposed to have three teachers watching the kids and I guess there was only one, and she said she turned her back to help another kid and she turned around and [my daughter] got stabbed in the eye.”

The girl was taken to the E.R. and was examined by an eye doctor. Her eye sight is not effected, and has a small fracture inside her nose. “She’s OK,” Redcap said. “[Wednesday] she was scared. I was scared. I’m just glad she’s alright and didn’t lose her eye.”

The Ute Indian Tribe Head Start School, located in the town of Whiterocks since 1966, is one of the original head starts in the country. Redcap says there were 15 or 16 students in her daughter’s class. The question she wants answered is why a screwdriver was left on a table where little kids were eating? She says three teachers were supposed to be supervising, but when Taylor was stabbed, only one teacher was there.

Redcap says she’s going to contact an attorney. “I’m going to press charges against the tribe for negligence and take it from there.”

Redcap says her daughter has enjoyed the school and her classmates, but will not be returning.