A Pennsylvania girl speaks out at a school board meeting about the time she witnessed a 13-year-old student brutally assault a fellow Stanley Cup student in the school cafeteria last week and the student’s “hit list.” He said he had alerted the school. before the bloody attack.
The student addressed the school board during the public comment section of a North Penn School District meeting Thursday, a day after a student allegedly approached the 12-year-old victim from behind in the Pembroke Middle School cafeteria and punched her multiple times. Head with metal cup.
“I don’t understand why they couldn’t stop it,” the child said. “It’s been five hours since I told you it was going to happen. It’s been a whole five hours. I don’t understand why you couldn’t stop it.”
She said she spoke with a counselor about an alleged “hit list” of accused students, which included her, but said, “Don’t worry, that’s not going to happen, we’re “We have it under control,” he said. ”
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Pembroke Middle School students and parents attended a school board meeting Thursday after a student was accused of hitting a classmate over the head with a metal Stanley mug. (North Penn TV)
“But clearly you weren’t,” she told the school board.
People who watched surveillance video of the incident FOX29 Philadelphia The 12-year-old victim showed bleeding on the head. She was assaulted and taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
The student also told the school board how the students “started screaming and running” when the incident occurred.
North Penn School Board Director Christian Fusco said he has heard the concerns of parents and students about recent incidents, but the district cannot comment at this time. (North Penn TV)
She said she “heard Stanley’s frightening loud bang bounce off her.” [classmate’s] He then witnessed the accused student grab the victim by the hair and begin “slamming him against the table.”
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The child described how “blood was flowing everywhere” and couldn’t help but think of that image.
“And we had to watch her be taken out with blood running down her face,” she told the school board. “And I’ll never forget it. As I was lying in bed last night, I was just repeating it in my head.”
A Pembroke Middle School student faces charges after an alleged unprovoked attack on a classmate last week. (FOX29 Philadelphia WTXF)
Both students and parents who spoke at the meeting questioned why students were kept in the cafeteria for 28 minutes and watched blood being wiped from tables and floors.
“We didn’t have to sit there and just watch her mop up her blood,” the student said. “See her repeatedly yelling ‘I’m going to kill her’ and hitting her with her Stanley gun.”
Students and parents questioned the school board at Thursday’s meeting about why the school did not take action despite warnings leading to the alleged attack. (FOX29 Philadelphia WTXF)
School officials sent a memo to parents Wednesday night saying resources will be provided to students who witnessed the incident and the principal plans to meet with students Thursday to discuss the incident.
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Parents have questioned school board officials about this incident, past incidents, and the school’s safety measures, but North Penn State Board of Education Director Christian Fusco said, “Everyone’s right to due process and the law… ”, the school district said it could not comment at this time.
