WESTMORELAND, JAMAICA: Brutal slaying of of 14-year-old Santoya Campbell of FROME TECH HIGH SCHOOL, whose dismembered body was found wrapped in a garbage bag near the school on Tuesday. Frome Tech mourns ...‘The school community is in pain’, "The students are having a hard time coping."

BY ANTHONY LEWIS Observer writer  Thursday, January 29, 2015    
FROME, Westmoreland — The normally lively chatter and smiles in the classrooms and within the halls of Frome Technical High School were replaced by sporadic sobs, grief and anger yesterday as students and teachers mourned the brutal slaying of 14-year-old Santoya Campbell, whose dismembered body was found wrapped in a garbage bag near the school on Tuesday.
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Frome studemts in pain from brutal slaying of Santoya Campbell
"The school community is in pain. All students, all categories of staff, we are all grieving. The outpouring of love for this girl has been really profound," expressed Sylvia Ricketts, principal of the school located in the sugar-cane belt of Westmoreland.
According to reports, Santoya — who hailed from Shrewsbury in the parish — left home for school at around 7:30 am on Monday. However, she did not show up for classes and was eventually reported missing after she failed to return home and checks made with the school. On Tuesday, her body was found underneath a bridge adjacent to the school.
Yesterday, the promising grade eight student, who plays on the school's Under-14 netball team, was spoken of highly by the school's staff.
Fourteen-year-old Santoya Campbell
 whose body was found under a bridge
 adjacent to the school on Monday.
"The students are having a hard time coping. She was a very vibrant student who got along with her classmates and peers," stated Merisa Troweis, who was Santoya's form and social studies teacher.
"We are just trying to be strong for the students even though as teachers we do need the strength, but persons have been coming in and lending support, and for that we are grateful. We just hope that persons will continue to keep us in their prayers," Troweis added.
Santoya's murder is the second in six years for the school's netball team. In 2009, another girl was killed in her community. more

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