Wrestler's Mother Blames School for Son's Staph Infection

The mother of a 17-year-old high school wrestler who suffered a major head infection allegedly caused by a teammate is blaming school administrators and coaches for not informing other wrestlers of the teammate's condition. Stacey Carey - whose son, Jaylan Douglass, has been hospitalized since Saturday with an oozing head wound and a temperature of 104.5 degrees - also claims coaches at North Central High School in Indianapolis do not properly sanitize wrestling mats.

According to local Fox affiliate WXIN, Carey says doctors are 99 percent positive Douglass contracted the infection (originally thought to be methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA) from his sparring partner - a senior with a head wound. Yet no one on the team was notified, she claims. "You allow a boy, knowingly, that has something going on to continue to come to school and to wrestle," Carey told local NBC affiliate WTHR. "Look at my son's head. The school knew that this young man had this, and you continue to let him wrestle and come to school? My son looks like he's been shot in his head."

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