A Pennsylvania father is demanding answers after a fourth-grade student “threw” his five-year-old son “headfirst into a table,” leaving him with a cut and missing teeth.
Stephen Callahan’s video of the alleged attack went viral on TikTok last week when he criticized Keystone Elementary School for failing to monitor the boy and refusing to share footage of the incident with him.
Callahan said her son Grayson was attacked by a special needs student in the school cafeteria on May 16 while the student’s teacher was “not paying attention.”
Grayson was taken to the hospital with a deep cut on his forehead and missing teeth and is now “too scared to go to school,” according to his father.
She said, “A teacher’s assistant who works with students with special needs in the county was not paying attention and was not handling the child she was supposed to be handling and a fourth grade student with special needs attacked my son.”
Stephen Callahan said his son Grayson was attacked by a special needs student in the school cafeteria while the student’s teacher was “not paying attention.”
Callahan said the school called his wife to tell her that their son had been involved in an accident.
She ran to school to find Grayson, where she said teachers repeatedly told her “it was an accident” but didn’t give her any details.
The boy was rushed to the hospital with a long cut on his forehead and missing teeth.
Callahan later spoke to the school’s principal, Mark Wilicki, and demanded to know what had happened.
He said Wilicki told him that “a special needs student grabbed my son from behind and threw him headfirst into a table, causing all the damage to his face.”
The incident was caught on a surveillance camera, but Callahan said the school refused to share the video with him, even though his doctors asked to see it.
Callahan shared an update on TikTok on Sunday saying, “The situation is getting uglier and uglier.”
‘At the end of the day I need answers. There is no reason a fourth grader should be around my son.
Callahan is now taking legal action against the school, but made it clear that he does not believe the boy or his parents are to blame.
Grayson was taken to the hospital with a deep cut on his forehead and missing teeth and is now “too scared to go to school,” according to his father.
The family’s lawyer, David Langsam. told Fox News Digital: ‘It’s probably the most disconcerting thing to take your children to a place where they’re supposed to learn, where they’re supposed to be safe, and then get a call telling them that something as horrible as this has happened to them.’
He added: “While the physical injuries are obviously serious, the emotional ones are going to take some time to really understand the extent of, and may very well dramatically outweigh what happened to him physically.”
The Bristol Township School District said they are investigating the incident.
They said: ‘On Thursday, May 16, a Keystone Elementary School kindergarten student was injured when he was pushed in the cafeteria by a fourth-grade student from a special education program run by the Bucks County Intermediate Unit ( BCIU).
‘We apologize to the student and family, and wish the child a speedy recovery. Our primary concern is the health and safety of all of our students, and every time a student is injured at school, it saddens us.”