Father Outraged After Video of His Daughter Being Beaten Up at School Reveals This Screen Shot 2016-01-31 at 6.57.39 AM
When the father of a 7th grader saw of video of his daughter being beaten up at school, not only was he saddened by seeing his daughter abused by a larger 8th grader, he was disgusted with the kids standing by cheering. And when he confronted the school about the lack of involvement, their response wasn’t much better. According to The Blaze:
Robert Medina was furious when he saw the footage of an 8th grade girl beating up his 7th grade daughter in a classroom at the Center of Hope School in Lakewood as fellow classmates stood by and cheered. The cell phone videos and pictures were taken by one of his daughter’s friends who later told Medina that the girls changed classrooms so that no teachers would see the fight take place.
“I just couldn’t believe it. I was outraged, I was angry. I couldn’t believe something like this could happen,” Medina told Denver’s KDVR-TV. “For a good minute the girl is on top of her, hitting and hitting and no one was around to do anything.”
The footage shows the bully straddled atop of Medina’s daughter as she brutally struck the younger girl over and over again, even getting up at one point to viciously kick her in her face and side before resuming the pummeling with her fists. The fight ended when an adult emerged upon the scene and forcibly removed the older girl from Medina’s daughter.
“She could have really hurt my daughter really bad, you know?” Medina told KDVR.
Medina has directed his outrage not only toward the students who stood by and watched the bully beat his daughter but also toward the school, claiming that the school mishandled the entire situation. The Center of Hope claims that it followed all of the proper policies and procedures in the incident’s aftermath.
The police were called to the scene, and both girls wound up receiving a suspension, KDVR reported.
What’s disturbing is any reasonable person can understand the father’s anger. What we can’t understand is why the “Center for Hope” thinks they followed all proper policies about the incident.
Any reasonable person would have stepped in to stop the fight, and apologized for not. The school’s actions are just as disgusting as the cheering bystanders.
What do you think? Leave a comment with your thoughts below.
You can see the fight video below:
Poster Comment:
A suspension is the right thing for the school to do, but I doubt it will change anything. Video at source.