Mother was stunned to find 12-year-old daughter handcuffed to a chair when she went to pick her up from school

A New York mother is outraged after her daughter was handcuffed to a chair at her high school following a fight with another student.

Christine Henson, 46, went to pick up her daughter Faith, 12, at IS 584 in the South Bronx on Nov. 19.

But when she arrived at the school, her daughter was nowhere to be found.

School officials reportedly took Henson to a room in the school on Saint Ann’s Avenue when she made the gruesome discovery.

The frustrated mother told me Daily news: ‘My daughter was treated like a criminal. She was truly violated. There’s no point.’

Faith struggled and panicked as she sat handcuffed to the chair with her arms behind her back, Henson said.

She told her mother that she had been handcuffed for three hours.

The mother recalled, “I asked the school security officer, ‘Why is she in handcuffs? Can you please take it off her?’ (The school security officer) said, “She’s not going anywhere.”

Henson claims she was not given any explanation as to how her daughter ended up in handcuffs. The school’s security guard allegedly stopped her from standing near the sixth grader.

The officer reportedly told Henson that the police needed to come and loosen the handcuffs.

But when six officers arrived, Henson said the officer was the one who had the key to freeing her daughter’s hands.

An NYPD representative told DailyMail.com that she was handcuffed after an argument with another student and began to become “increasingly agitated.”

The department wrote, “The School Safety Agent attempted to place the student in the Velcro handcuffs, the student was non-compliant and the School Safety Agent was unable to place her in the Velcro handcuffs.

“The student was then restrained with metal handcuffs.”

Police said the mother was informed of the situation and the child was handcuffed for about 15 minutes instead of three hours.

Child and civil rights advocates claimed that handcuffing Faith was unnecessary and unacceptable, regardless of how long she was held.

‘If there is no immediate threat, these students should receive support. Situations can be de-escalated in ways that do not require restrictions,” Rohini Singh, director of the School Justice Project at Advocates for Children, told the Daily News.

The Rev. Kevin McCall echoed this sentiment, telling the newspaper, “You send your child to school to learn, not to be put in handcuffs.

“We don’t need the police in our schools.”

Faith said she was completely stunned when she was handcuffed and was taken aback when school security officers restrained her.

She told the Daily News: “It just came out of nowhere.

‘They did it secretly. I was confused why they did it. It felt terrible. It didn’t feel good. They just did it. They didn’t say why. Now my wrist hurts.’

Henson said she took Faith to the emergency room the next day and her daughter was not disciplined at school.

But the sixth-former is still stunned by the incident and wants to transfer schools.

“I’m scared, I don’t even want to go to class,” she said.

On November 22, Henson filed a request to immediately transfer Faith, but was initially told she should have filed the incident on the day off.

A school official said she wouldn’t be able to switch schools until next fall at the earliest.

But McCall said once the situation became public knowledge, the school offered to transfer the student.

“School and district leaders are reaching out to this family to ensure they receive the support they need, and mental health and emotional support are available at every school,” Public Schools spokesperson Jenna Lyle told the Daily News .

“We are taking steps to ensure these resources are known to this student.”

Henson wants to sue the school over this incident.

“The school just covered it up and expected me to bypass it as if nothing had happened. They want this to go away,” she said.

DailyMail.com has contacted NYC Public Schools for comment.