The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was pulled from her wheelchair and beaten by bullies in a horrific attack is speaking out about the abuse.
Footage of two disturbing attacks on the 12-year-old girl in the bathroom and in an elevator at Conway Middle School in Orlando shows her being dragged like a rag doll and pushed onto the cold tile floor in an attack filmed by his fellow students.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, her mother revealed that the same girls had harassed her for weeks.
‘It makes me sick to watch that video, I keep thinking, what if she was paralyzed or never woke up?’ she said.
‘I’m angry and disappointed, how can I leave my daughter every day and not wonder what could happen? She is helpless, she can’t walk.
‘I see her on her knees praying to God to make her ‘normal’.
The girl’s mother said she was furious and distraught because her daughter (left) was attacked and the images were posted on Instagram.
The horrifying video begins with the victim kneeling before the other girl grabs her head and pushes her to the bathroom floor.
Hall’s daughter suffers from a rare spinal condition and has undergone six surgeries since she was five years old. She was told that she would not live past 10 years.
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 stand up, the disabled girl tries to retaliate, but the much taller attacker grabs her by the arm and swings her across the room.
She again tries to defend herself, but is pushed against the wall while the attacker and the girl filming laugh hysterically.
The girl finally manages to sit back in her wheelchair.
Seemingly proud of her cruelty, the girl who posted the video added the caption “I’ll fight someone in a 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 custody on weekends, contacted her to tell her that one of her parents had also told him and that he was on his way to pick her up.
He entered the school and explained what happened to school administrators, who had not contacted any of them.
When Hall finally spoke to her daughter, she was with the girl who attacked her, who grabbed the phone and claimed they were just playing.
“I told him that my daughter was in a wheelchair for a reason and that they couldn’t play like that. But they tricked me,” he explained.
The girl spins around the room in a complete circle after the older student grabs her arm.
She soon discovered other videos of sickening attacks on her daughter circulating online, along with threatening posts and messages.
When she asked her daughter about the attacks, she revealed that she had been harassed 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 secure 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 was putting up with this and no one at school did anything about it.” If they had done it at the beginning this would not have happened.
The 12-year-old boy was attacked in the bathroom and in an elevator at Conway Middle School (pictured) in Orlando.
‘Disabled children should be looked after all day and I should have been informed from the beginning.
‘Both the school and the girls who did this treat it as a joke. It’s not, and it’s not horseplay either: it’s bullying and aggression.
Principal Joshua Bing sent a message to parents saying the school immediately opened an investigation.
“The school administration is aware of some students who were involved in several extremely disturbing altercations that took place on campus,” he said.
It is not yet clear whether the girls involved have been disciplined. Conway Middle School did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
The girl suffers from chondrodysplasia punctata, a rare disorder.
His genetic defects include shorter femurs and one of his legs is shorter than the other.
The condition may include skeletal abnormalities, distinctive facial features, intellectual disability, and respiratory problems.