The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was dragged from her wheelchair and beaten in a horrific attack fears the bully will only receive a slap on the wrist.
Footage of two disturbing attacks on the 12-year-old in the bathroom and in an elevator at Conway Middle School in Orlando was posted on Instagram last week.
They show her being dragged like a rag doll and pushed onto the cold tiles in an attack filmed by a classmate, also aged 12.
The victim’s mother, Myisha Hall, met with the principal, school district staff and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Friday morning.
But she told DailyMail.com that although they finally admitted the attack after a week of downplaying it, they refused to say how the bully would be punished.
The girl’s mother said she was furious and upset that her daughter (left) was attacked and the images were posted on Instagram.
The gruesome video begins with the victim on her knees before the other girl grabs her head and pushes her against the bathroom floor.
“I feel like it will be a slap on the wrist, but it should be more. We all know there was an attack because we saw the video,” she said.
“I told them I’m not satisfied, how will I know justice has been done?”
Hall’s daughter suffers from a rare spinal disease and has undergone six surgeries since she was five. She was told she would not live beyond 10 years.
Hall said officials initially claimed the girls told them it was just a “ruckus” and that there was no crime because there was no victim.
“For us to be able to establish that there was a crime of assault and battery, there must be a victim, and all the parties interviewed said the same thing: that they often “play fight” while throughout the school day,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday.
But Hall explained at the meeting that her daughter suffered scrapes and bruises in both attacks and that staff gave her an ice pack.
Another video provided to DailyMail.com shows Hall’s daughter in her wheelchair, surrounded by other girls who were harassing her.
“No punches,” she said, waving her hand in protest, followed by what appeared to be a fight between their hands.
The girl is thrown around the room in a full circle after the taller student grabs her arm.
The young girl, who would be the same as the one who attacked her in the bathroom and in the elevator, then allegedly threatened her.
“I’m going to beat the brakes on this wheelchair, I don’t care,” she said.
Messages between the girls showed the attacker sent her dozens of voice messages on Instagram, making fun of her hair and wishing she would die.
“You’re stupid, you’re stupid, you’re so boring – I hope you get hit by a big bus and die, and I’ll laugh at your funeral,” one message read.
Another said: “I’m going to curb this girl, I’m not playing.”
A third message read: “I hope you roll down the hill and die.” »
The girl also made fun of the “bald spots” on her head and challenged her to post a previous bullying video online.
“At least I look good in the video, unlike you,” she said.
Hall said the video and messages, as well as what his daughter ultimately told him about the girls’ story, showed a pattern of bullying.
She said the school and police began taking the bullies seriously after she exposed them.
“They don’t know that my daughter is disabled, that she is helpless and that she will endure this for the rest of her life,” she said.
“It’s a crime, she’s a victim… I feel disgusted.”
Hall said she felt the school failed her daughter and she would not return unless the girl was expelled, and probably not even then.
She also said she would press charges against the girl who attacked her daughter, and told the sheriff’s department during the meeting.
Hall said the principal admitted the girl had bullied and harassed his daughter and that she would receive Level 3 and 4 punishments for each act.
However, she said the school refused to tell her what the punishment would be.
The Orange County Public Schools Disciplinary Response Code states that a Level 4 offense, the highest, could include expulsion.
“Up to 10 days of suspension with recommendation for expulsion (mandatory),” it reads, along with a list of other sanctions.
Bullying has been defined as “the systematic and chronic infliction of physical injury or psychological distress on one or more students or employees.”
“Bullying includes repeated intimidating behaviors that are intentional and involve an imbalance of power. »
Harassment and simple battery were classified as Level 3 offenses that could result in suspension and other penalties.
The school did not respond to a request for clarification from DailyMail.com on the nature of the sanction.
The gruesome video begins with the victim on his knees. One of the bullies grabs her head and pushes her to the bathroom floor.
Trying to get up, the disabled girl tried to fight back, but the attacker, who was much larger, grabbed her arm and spun her around the room.
She tries to fight back again but is pushed against the wall while the attacker and the girl filming laugh hysterically.
The girl finally manages to return to her wheelchair.
Apparently proud of her cruelty, the girl who posted the images added the caption “I’m going to fight sb in a wheelchair.”
Video of the elevator attack shows the disabled girl being manhandled in the small space and slapped repeatedly until she was able to return to her wheelchair.
“I’m sickened to see this video, I keep thinking, what if she was paralyzed or never woke up?” Hall told DailyMail.com on Thursday.
“I’m angry and I’m disappointed. How can I drop my daughter off every day without wondering what could happen? She is helpless, she cannot walk.
“I see her on her knees praying to God to make her “normal.”
Video of the elevator attack shows the disabled girl being manhandled in the small space and slapped repeatedly until she was able to return to her wheelchair.
Hall said she was first alerted to the attack when another parent saw the video on Instagram and contacted her.
The girl’s father, who has weekend custody, then contacted her to say a relative had also told him and was on his way to pick her up.
He entered the school and explained what had happened to school administrators, who had not contacted either of them.
When Hall finally spoke to her daughter, she was with the girl who had attacked her – who had grabbed the phone and claimed they were just playing.
“I told him my daughter was in a wheelchair for a reason and she couldn’t play like that. But I was misled,” she explained.
She soon discovered other videos of sickening attacks on her daughter circulating online, as well as threatening posts and messages.
When she asked her daughter about the attacks, she revealed that she had been bullied for weeks.
“She said, ‘Mom, they do this to me all the time.’
“It hurts me because I didn’t know my daughter was going through this. She should feel safe and protected and not be afraid to tell people.
Hall said she was angry because the school did nothing about the bullying and didn’t tell her about the attack before she saw it on social media.
“I’m furious, I haven’t slept or eaten in days,” she said.
“It’s scary that she had to endure this and no one at school did anything about it.” If they had done it in the beginning, this wouldn’t have happened.
The 12-year-old was attacked in the bathroom and in an elevator at Conway Middle School (pictured) in Orlando.
“Children with disabilities should be looked after all day and they should have informed me of this from the start.
“The school and the girls who did this treat it as a joke. It’s not, and it’s not heckling either – it’s intimidation and assault.
Principal Joshua Bing sent a message to parents saying the school had immediately launched an investigation.
“The school administration is aware that a few students have been involved in several extremely disturbing altercations that have taken place on campus,” he said.
The young girl suffers from chondrodysplasia punctata, a rare disease.
His genetic defects include shorter femurs and one of his legs is shorter than the other.
The disease can include skeletal abnormalities, distinctive facial features, intellectual disability and respiratory problems.
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