The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was pulled from her wheelchair and beaten in a horrific attack fears her attacker will only receive a slap on the wrist.
Last week, images of two disturbing attacks on a 12-year-old boy in the bathroom and in an elevator at Conway Middle School in Orlando were uploaded to Instagram.
They show her being dragged like a rag doll and pushed across the cold tile floor in an attack filmed by a fellow student, also 12 years old.
The victim’s mother, Myisha Hall, met with the principal, school district staff and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office on Friday morning.
But he told DailyMail.com that although they finally acknowledged the attack after a week of downplaying it, they refused to say how the attacker would be punished.
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.
‘I feel like it will be a slap on the wrist, but it should be more. “We all know there was an assault when we saw the video,” she said.
‘I told them I was not satisfied, how will I know justice has been done?’
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.
Hall said officials initially claimed the girls told them it was just ‘horseplay’ and that there was no crime because there was no victim.
“In order for us to establish that the crime of assault occurred, there needs to be a victim, and all parties interviewed said the same thing: that they often ‘play fight’ throughout the day at school,” the office said. from the sheriff on Thursday.
But Hall explained at the meeting that her daughter suffered scratches 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 harassing her.
“No hitting,” he said, waving his hand in protest, followed by what appeared to be a fight between his hands.
The girl spins around the room in a complete circle after the older student grabs her arm.
The girl, allegedly the same one who attacked her in the bathroom and in the elevator, later said he threatened her.
“I’ll take the brakes off that wheelchair, I don’t give a damn,” he said.
Messages between the girls showed that the attacker sent her dozens of voice messages on Instagram mocking her hair and wishing her to die.
“You’re stupid, you’re stupid, you’re so annoying. 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 take the brakes off this girl, I’m not going to play.”
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,” he said.
Hall said the video and messages, in addition to what her daughter eventually told her about the history between the girls, showed a pattern of harassment.
She said the school and police began taking the attackers seriously after she showed them to them.
“They’re missing the fact that my daughter is disabled, she’s helpless and she’s going to put up with this for the rest of her life,” he said.
“This is a crime, she is a victim… It makes me sick.”
Hall said she felt the school had failed her daughter and that she would not return there unless the girl was expelled, and probably not even then.
He also said he would press charges against the girl who attacked his daughter, and told the sheriff’s department as much at the meeting.
Hall said the principal admitted the girl bullied and harassed his daughter and would receive level 3 and 4 punishments for each act.
However, he said the school refused to tell him what the punishment would be.
Orange County Public Schools Disciplinary response code states that a level 4 infraction, the highest, could include expulsion.
“Up to 10 days suspension with recommendation for expulsion (mandatory),” it said, along with a list of other punishments.
Bullying was defined as “systematically and chronically inflicting physical harm or psychological distress on one or more students or employees.”
‘Bullying includes intimidating behaviors that are repeated, intentional and involve an imbalance of power.’
Harassment and simple assault were classified as Level 3 offenses that could include a suspension along with other punishments.
The school did not respond to a request from DailyMail.com to clarify what the punishment would be.
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.”
Video of the elevator attack shows the disabled girl being manhandled by the small space and slapped repeatedly until she can return to her wheelchair.
‘It makes me sick to watch that video, I keep thinking, what if she was paralyzed or never woke up?’ Hall told DailyMail.com on Thursday.
‘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’.
Video of the elevator attack shows the disabled girl being manhandled by the small space and slapped repeatedly until she can 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 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.
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.
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.