Student recounts watching girl, 13, brutally bash classmate in head with Stanley cup during unprovoked attack: ‘Blood everywhere’

A brave schoolgirl has described her horror after seeing a 13-year-old girl repeatedly hit a classmate in the head with a metal Stanley Cup in an unprovoked attack – leaving ‘blood everywhere’ and pupils traumatized.

“I just hear all this screaming and everyone running. All of a sudden you hear these terrible bangs from the Stanley bouncing off his head,” Emily said at a school board meeting.

“We had to sit there and watch them clean the blood off those tables and the floor, and we had to watch them take her out with blood running down her face and I’ll never forget that.”

Parents of students at Pennbrook Middle School in North Wales, Pennsylvania, have criticized administrators for failing to heed warnings about the attacker who allegedly had a “blacklist” of students who ‘she planned to target.

Seventh graders told their guidance counselor they heard “something was going to happen at lunch,” but school officials did not act, allowing the violent attack to take place in front students in the cafeteria, parent Stephanie Palovcak told WPIV.

“When you get a phone call from your child crying and saying, ‘Mom, help, there’s blood everywhere,'” she recalls through tears.

Police in the northwest Philadelphia community said the “unprovoked, sudden and violent attack” happened around 1:20 p.m. Wednesday when the attacker approached behind a 12-year-old classmate and immediately started hitting her in the head with his Stanley Cup. – the ubiquitous must-have beverage cup for the TikTok generation.

Emily, a student who witnessed the lunchtime attack, said she would never forget seeing her classmate being taken to hospital covered in blood.

A security guard and a teacher quickly intervened in the attack, which left the victim visibly bleeding from the head, according to surveillance footage viewed by the station.

The college was on lockdown for eight minutes when police and first responders arrived. Police said the victim had to put staples in his head and was being monitored for concussion.

Parents of children in the district have described the heartbreaking moment their child called or texted them after witnessing the bloody attack.

Sarah Batory became emotional as she described a text she received from her son Wednesday, recalling him texting her: “Mom, I’m scared.”

“I can’t even tell you what it feels like to get a text message like that when your child is at school,” she told Fox 29.

“The fear in the voices of these children. It must have been a brutal attack because so many children were screaming and crying,” mother Megan Krache told WPIV.

Other parents, like Palovcak, said they or their child reported the 13-year-old student to school counselors earlier in the week.

Mom Alyssa Santiago said she raised her concerns with school officials after the student threatened her daughter.

“If this had been taken seriously, following multiple complaints, this little girl would have been at school today and my daughter is traumatized.”

Palovcak added: “It didn’t have to come to this. It wouldn’t have to come to this if they acted sooner. »

Parents said the alleged attacker was a new student who had started school on Monday, just two days before the incident took place on Wednesday.

“Several parents contacted this child making threats,” Palovcak said, adding that the student allegedly had a list of students he wanted to beat up.

Stefan Ross told WPIV that his son went to the student’s previous school, where she was expelled after alleged violent incidents.

“The person came out of the trees and brandished a knife at my son and his friend,” he said of an incident that allegedly happened off school.

In a letter to parents, Superintendent Todd Bauer denied that the student transferred to Pennbrook after being expelled for violent behavior at another school.

“This should not have happened, as an educator, superintendent and father I am appalled by what happened,” Bauer told concerned parents at a school board meeting Thursday evening.

“We are currently investigating the details that led to this incident and why it occurred. We are also working with local law enforcement in their investigation while ensuring that something like this cannot happen again.

Police say the accused student will likely face several charges, including aggravated assault.