A Pennsylvania father still wants answers nearly a week after a special needs student allegedly assaulted his 5-year-old son at his elementary school, leaving him with blood on his face and missing a tooth, his lawyer says on FOX He told News Digital.
David Langsam of Injury Law Partners said that Steve Callahan was accused of calling Keystone Elementary School and Bristol Elementary School over how school officials handled the situation surrounding his son Grayson in a viral TikTok video last week. Representing Steve Callahan and his family in the wake of their accusations against the township school district.
Ransom said Grayson, a kindergarten student, was attacked by a fourth-grade special needs student at the school, leaving him with facial lacerations and several lost teeth.
“That’s probably the most unsettling thing to get a call that you took your kids to a safe place where they were supposed to be learning and something like this happened,” Ransom told Fox.・Told News Digital.
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Watch Callahan’s full TIKTOK video:
In his TikTok video, which has been viewed millions of times, Callahan explained that the May 16 attack “was not a random incident,” as the school initially led people to believe.
“A fourth-grade special needs student attacked my son because a teacher’s aide who works with special needs students in the county was not paying attention and responding to the child as she should have,” Callahan said. “I did,” he said the principal later told him. “The special needs student grabbed my son by the back and threw him head-first into the table, causing severe damage to his face.”
The incident was recorded on surveillance cameras, but Ransom said the family has not yet been allowed to view the footage.
Grayson Callahan, 5, suffered bloody cuts to his face and lost teeth in the alleged attack, and school officials have refused to allow the Callahan family to view security footage of the incident at Keystone Elementary School. (The Callahan Family)
“Some of the local police officers who conducted the investigation contacted the family just to let them know that they had had a chance to see the video and that it was upsetting, but so far they have not allowed access to the video. They haven’t met our demands.” They haven’t had much success,” Ransom said.
Steve Callaghan said he was afraid to go back to school after his son had a tooth removed. (The Callahan Family)
A week after the alleged assault, the Callahan family is still seeking answers about how Grayson was injured.
When Fox News Digital reached out to the Bristol Township School District, a spokesperson referred comment to the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (BIU), which runs the special education program at Keystone Elementary School.
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A spokesperson for BIU told Fox News Digital that one of its students was involved in an incident with another student at Keystone Elementary School and that the school has begun an investigation in full cooperation with the school district. acknowledged.
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit operates a special education program within Keystone Elementary School in Croydon, Pennsylvania. (Google Maps)
BIU is in contact with the families of both students and school district administrative staff and will take appropriate action based on the findings of the investigation, a spokesperson said.
Langsam said the Callahan family hopes they can bring about some changes in the system “so that the next parent doesn’t get these kinds of calls.”
Mr Ransom said of Grayson: “The physical scars are severe, as well as the emotional scars, but it will take time to really understand the extent of them, and it will take those scars to dramatically reflect what happened to him physically.” There is a good chance that we will exceed the target.”
Callahan said in his TikTok video that he has no plans to send his son back to school, adding that he has no plans to pursue legal action against special needs students or their parents, and that he puts the blame squarely on the teacher’s assistant.
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“I have a 5-year-old who doesn’t want to go to his kindergarten graduation. He can’t go to school because he’s afraid something will happen to him,” Callahan said in the video. “What would you do if you were me?”
