Teen’s skull fractured in alleged assault at resort in Dominican Republic

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Dominican Republic, according to his family, one week after they say his skull was cracked in what his mother alleges was an assault in a bar at the resort they were staying at.“I just want to get back to Canada as soon as possible with him,” Cindy Rowan told Global News on Friday while speaking about the ordeal facing her son Chase Delorme-Rowan.On Monday, Rowan said her son remains in hospital and is still not able to be flown back to Edmonton where he and his family live, so she has rented a room near the hospital so she can be by his side.Rowan said she gave Chase, 18, and his two siblings permission to go to a bar on the resort on Tuesday since they were all of age.“I thought it was a safe place so I let them go,” she explained.Rowan said she received a phone call just after midnight that something was wrong with her son.She asked his brothers to bring him back to the room but she soon realized the severity of the situation.“My son’s like, ‘Mum, there’s something seriously wrong with Chase… He’s not waking up, there’s blood coming out of his mouth.’ And I’m like, ‘What? What do you mean?'”Rowan said she and her husband ran to the bar and arrived at the same time as an ambulance to see her son in distress and a number of panicked people looking on.She said her son had to wait to get surgery once he arrived at the hospital because the staff there were trying to confirm his insurance would cover any help he required.“They removed a blood clot the size of a grapefruit from his skull,” Rowan recalled.

“And his brain was swelling to the point that they had to remove pieces of bone to let the brain swell.“If they didn’t remove that bone, he would surely die or have strokes.”Rowan was emotional as she explained her son then