Assault or cover story?

[SplitDik (imported)]

Stories like this ("unknown assailant" type) usually seem suspicious to me. He probably hurt himself and was embarrassed so tried to cover it up.

For example, why would he get testicle torsion from an assault and if he was so seriously assaulted why didn't he make it to a hospital prior to the six hours of salvagability window?

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ ... d-20110208

Paarl school assault being probed

2011-02-08 10:16

Pupil loses testicle after attack

Ilse Krige, Die Burger

Stellenbosch - The investigation into an alleged attack on a pupil at a top school in Paarl, which resulted in him losing one of his testicles, was intensified on Monday.

Pupils of Paarl Gimnasium were questioned by officials from the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) on Monday morning to establish exactly what had happened.

The school's legal representatives also met with the WCED.

The incident apparently happened in the early hours of last Tuesday morning in a hostel room in House McFarlane. It would appear that an unknown group of people entered 15-year-old Dawid-Hendrik Roux's room and hit him on his private parts, leaving the room in a mess.

Dawid-Hendrik was operated on in Louis Leipoldt Hospital in Bellville, where one of his testicles was removed. He was discharged and is recuperating.

Internal investigation

By Monday afternoon, the chairperson of the school's governing body, Jaco Niemand, informed reporters that the internal investigation was not yet finished and that everything was being done to fast-track the investigation.

He assured the parent community on the school's website that the incident was being viewed in a serious light.

The boy's father, Riaan Roux of Ashton, spoke about Dawid-Hendrik's condition on Monday: "He is a strong boy. His crisis is over, but our hearts (as parents) are not better."

Marelize Potgieter reported that footage from closed circuit TV cameras in the boarding house was being studied.

Paarl police spokesperson Captain Louise du Plessis said to date no party had opened a case at their police station.

Meanwhile, a urologist and lecturer at the Tygerberg campus of the University of Stellenbosch, Dr Andre van der Merwe, said there were about six hours to try and save a testicle once the blood supply had been cut off.

Van der Merwe added: "It is possible for a patient with one normal remaining testicle to still have children."

[Batman (imported)]

My instinctual thought was a 15 year old was embarassed and didn't want to draw attention to what happened to him. Once the pain became too great he didn't have a choice...<shrug>

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

I agree with Batman on this one. It does not sound like a "cover story" to me.

[SplitDik (imported)]

Why would he be embarrassed if they were "unknown"? If they were other schoolmates bullying or hazing him, then I might concur. But if they were really unknown, anyone beat in their own room by unknown assailants would report it.

Maybe he's not covering up self-harm, but his story doesn't ring true. He's covering up something. If there were assailants then he knew them.

I'm pretty macho and might not report an overboard hazing by acquaintances, but I can't think of any situation where machismo would make you embarrassed to report multiple unknown assailants in your own home.

I know I ended up in the hospital many times as a teenager from genital self-harm. From my first-hand knowledge that there are so many guys with the same fetish, I really think it is more likely that he did some sort of self-harm. I definitely understand that sort of embarrassment, especially the first time you have to go to emergency (the first time for me I had put a fishing treble hook down my urethra -- as you might expect, put there by unknown assailants). I waited three days before I couldn't stand it any longer.