A Hamilton teenager is in intensive care in hospital after a vicious beating with a baseball bat.
15-year-old Noah Rabbani was attacked by two men last Saturday while walking from a friend's place to his grandmother's.
Noah's father Kahlid Rabbani tells NEWSTALK 1010's Moore in the Morning a car drove passed his son and stopped. As Noah walked past the car, the driver of the car exited and stood in front of his son while a second person climbed out of the back seat and hit Noah in the back of the head with a baseball bat.
"Falling down he hit his forehead. His jaw broke. He hit his nose and it broke," the father said Thursday. Doctors also flagged a blood clot on Noah's brain and fractures to his skull.
The men took off with the boy's backpack with cologne, books and a water bottle inside. They didn't take his cellphone or his wallet.
Kahlid Rabbani cannot fathom someone wanting to hurt his son, a Kiwanis award winning student with dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon.
While some family members have raised the possibility that the attack on Noah, who is Muslim and of Pakistani descent, might have been a hate crime.
Noah's father does not think so.
"I think it's just the wrong place at the wrong time...it's just a random, selfish, stupid attack which was done for god knows what."
A Go Fund Me page has been set up Noah's recovery.