A brave Pennsylvania girl has spoken out furiously against teachers and administrators at her school after a transgender student savagely beat her friend using a Stanley cup.
The incident took place at Pennbrook Middle School Wednesday, when the 13-year-old blindsided her 12-year-old female victim in the school cafeteria using the cup, hitting her on the head and creating an open wound.
The unidentified student had to be hospitalized and get staples to close the cuts in her head before undertaking concussion protocol, according to police.
School Superintendent Todd Bauer said that the attack – which was caught on security camera – was ‘deeply disturbing’ in a statement at the start of Thursday’s board meeting.
However, as one unidentified student bravely said, not only did she warn teachers the bullying student had ‘a hit list’ but she added that she was the next one to get assaulted had she not been stopped.
The brave Pennsylvania girl spoke out furiously against teachers and administrators at her school after a transgender student beat up her friend using a Stanley cup
‘You could’ve stopped it,’ the brave young girl said. ‘It was five hours from when I told you it was going to happen. I don’t get how you couldn’t have stopped that.’
She added there was a girl the bully was ‘targeting every day at lunch. And they would go to the counselor every day and tell them this is going to happen.’
The assailant was blunt enough to scream ‘I’m gonna murder you!’ repeatedly at the students.
The girl spoke about how she and two fellow students filled out paperwork explaining what they knew was going to happen if nothing was done and said that she was warned ‘watch your back’ at lunch.
A teacher responded to her: ‘Don’t worry about it, it’s not gonna’ happen.’
She added that once the attack began, it lasted 28 minutes, despite the school board claiming it was just eight minutes.
‘We had to watch [the victim] taken out with blood dripping down her face and I will never forget that! Laying in bed last night I just kept repeating it in my head.’
Parents shared their own outrage with the school’s inability to protect the student and how this has been a shocking trend at the school and with parents hearing from their kids and not the adults in charge.
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The incident took place at Pennbrook Middle School Wednesday, when the 13-year-old blindsided her 12-year-old female victim in the school cafeteria using the cup, hitting her on the head and creating an open wound
![School Superintendent Todd Bauer said that the attack - which was caught on security camera - was 'deeply disturbing' in a statement at the start of Thursday's board meeting](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/21/06/83901925-13332499-image-a-14_1713676144867.jpg)
School Superintendent Todd Bauer said that the attack – which was caught on security camera – was ‘deeply disturbing’ in a statement at the start of Thursday’s board meeting
Stephanie Pallica shockingly revealed that the principal of the school referred to what happened as ‘a fight’ in an email to parents.
‘As a parent, your worst fear comes to life, when you get that call from your kid, crying, in school, ‘Mom, help me, I’m scared, there’s blood everywhere.’ You can’t get to them fast enough. And they hang up on you, because teachers and staff are yelling at them to hang up their phones,’ she said.
‘When we get an email that states ‘student safety is always of the utmost importance to the district,’ it really has become rhetoric that we don’t believe or trust,’ added Susan Dziedzic, according to The Reporter Online.
‘I could spend hours giving you examples of the violence that is happening readily, in any school, on any given day, K to 12,’ she added.
Alyssa Santiago’s daughter was also on the alleged hit list and called twice to warn the school.
‘I was assured that my daughter was safe, and I was assured that it was handled, and taken care of.’
Another parent, Ariel Baker Edwards, said she’d started warning about the attacker as early as September.
Chris Pekula, who said he had a friend who lost a child in the Sandy Hook massacre, was outraged that the children were kept on lockdown, unable to communicate with family.
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‘You could’ve stopped it,’ the brave young girl said. ‘It was five hours from when I told you it was going to happen. I don’t get how you couldn’t have stopped that’
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The attacker has been charged by police with aggravated assault and has a hearing scheduled for Monday
He asked: ‘Why were kids left in the room, that this incident took place, while they were cleaning the blood off the floor? My daughter calls me, crying, hysterical, that they were cleaning blood off the floor.’
Pekula’s daughters were two of the students who visited counselors twice the morning of the attack and warned them it was coming, he said.
‘What happened from the time you and your district got the warning, that this attack was coming, to when the attack happened? Because it happened exactly the way she told you it was going to happen.’
Multiple guardians even professed to have seen videos on social media of the attacker engaged in violent behavior, adding that their children knew about the reputation of the student and went to school in fear.
‘There was a violent track record of this child, and I want to call on one of the board members to evaluate the ‘Safe2Say’ program, call a special committee, just like you did for the renovations at the high school, to evaluate everything that happened and report back to the community,’ said Shannon Main.
One parent, Sarah Batory, hammered home the trauma that these kids have been put through, saying that her son told her ‘when I close my eyes, all I see is [the victim’s] blood.’
The meeting ended with the anger of the parents yelling further questions at the board.
‘There is no comment that we are able to make at this time, because of everyone’s due process rights, and because of the law. I do wish that I could answer those questions. My heart is broken as well,’ board Vice President Christian Fusco said.
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‘As an educator, as your superintendent, and as a father, I am appalled by what happened,’ Superintendent Todd Bauer said
![Multiple parents professed to have seen videos on social media of the attacker engaged in violent behavior, adding that their children knew about the reputation of the student and went to school in fear](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/21/06/83901921-13332499-image-m-23_1713676318750.jpg)
Multiple parents professed to have seen videos on social media of the attacker engaged in violent behavior, adding that their children knew about the reputation of the student and went to school in fear
Superintendent Todd Bauer could only give a similarly unsatisfactory statement.
‘As an educator, as your superintendent, and as a father, I am appalled by what happened,’ he said.
‘We are currently pursuing the details leading up to this incident, and why it occurred. We are also collaborating with our local law enforcement, and their investigation, as we work to ensure that something like this cannot happen again in our schools.’
‘Such behavior has no place in our schools. You expect better, we expect better, and certainly I do as well,’ he added.
The attacker has been charged by police with aggravated assault and has a hearing scheduled for Monday.
The 12-year-old girl she attacked is still recovering in the hospital.