Kaylee Gain’s high school refused to turn over records to the Missouri Attorney General after he said he wanted to charge her alleged attacker as an adult following a vicious school fight that left her fighting for her life.
It’s just the latest in a heated back-and-forth between prosecutors and local school district officials, who say they are victims of intimidation tactics.
In an interview on Fox News, right-wing Attorney General Andrew Bailey spoke with host Laura Ingraham and claimed the brutality was the result of an obsession with woke DEI policies and the soft approach to justice under the former DA of St. Louis, Kim Gardner and incumbent Rep. Cori Bush, a hardline progressive Democrat.
Gain, 16, was left in a coma for two weeks after the beating near Hazelwood East High School in St Louis on March 8, in which a teenage girl repeatedly hit her head on concrete.
After days of silence from the Hazelwood school district, a spokesperson claimed Bailey’s investigation was “based on lies” in an email obtained by Fox News.
In response, Bailey said the school district had made “egregious errors” over the incident and cited Chapter 610, which requires a public government body to turn over records and provide a letter detailing why requested documents have not been shared.
Kaylee Gain’s high school refused to turn over records to the Missouri Attorney General after a vicious school fight left her fighting for her life.
Andrew Bailey said the school district has made “egregious errors” over the incident and cited Chapter 610, which requires a public government body to provide a letter detailing why requested documents have not been shared.
“Rather than directing your anger at a date reference or making ad-hominem attacks, you should follow Missouri law and do so immediately,” Bailey said.
In an email written by Cindy Reeds Ownsby, an attorney for the school district, she said, “It is disappointing to have an attorney general who intentionally disrespects public school district administrators and elected officials by sending error-filled correspondence to intimidate and threaten their leadership”. .’
He added that the fight did not occur “during the middle of the school day,” as Bailey has argued that school resource officers “would have been at the scene” that occurred after hours, “a half-mile from school property.” “.
He added that the district’s most shocking mistake was the “baseless allegations that race was a factor in the incident.”
Ownsby told Bailey that the requested records would be delivered by April 15 and acknowledged the Sunshine Law.
State law requires that public agency records be open to the public and that the other party cannot ignore or avoid a request.
The Attorney General said the investigation is scheduled to determine whether the school district violated the state Human Rights Law.
Cindy Reeds Ownsby, an attorney for the school district, said the fight did not take place during the school day, as Bailey argued it occurred just “a half mile from school property.”
The law “guarantees all Missouri residents the right to be free from discrimination and the right to full enjoyment of places of public accommodation.”
It’s still unclear what started the fight, but Bailey accused Gain’s school of “promoting racial division” and “pushing a radical social agenda” at the expense of proper discipline.
Gain is currently fighting for his life at a local hospital where he is being treated for brain bleeding and swelling.
He suffered a fractured skull and damage to his frontal lobe during the fight that was caught on camera near his high school.
TO GoFundMe Created to help his family face medical expenses, it has so far raised more than $40,000 with donations from around the world.
In a March 22 update, her father said Gain is breathing on her own and “remains stable.”
Video of the incident circulated on social media and showed another girl slamming the teen’s head into the concrete after throwing multiple punches at her, sending her to the ground.
Gain appeared to begin to suffer a seizure as groups of other teenagers fought a few meters away.
The Attorney General criticized Rep. Cori Bush (L) for supporting defunding the police and former St. Louis Attorney General Kim Gardner for her lax approach to prosecution.
Gain suffered a fractured skull and damage to his frontal lobe during the fight that was caught on camera near his high school.
Police found the girl suffering from a serious head injury near the intersection of Norgate Drive and Claudine Drive, about a five-minute walk from the high school campus.
A 15-year-old girl was arrested and charged with assault. Her identity has not been revealed since she is a minor.
It was revealed that the day before the fight, Gain was suspended from school for fighting with a different girl, who was friends with the teen now accused in the incident, as reported by The New York Post.
Gain and the girl, who remains in a juvenile detention center, were apparently members of warring friend groups at their high school.
The accused girl’s family previously told DailyMail.com that she is the real victim who was “harassed and intimidated” before the viral incident and responded to calls to charge the student as an adult.
John O’Sullivan, director of communications for the St. Louis County courts, told KSDK that it is too early to determine whether the suspect will be tried as an adult.
He said a court hearing is expected to be held in the coming weeks.