A Maryland second-grade student was rushed to the hospital after being “hung” in the boy’s bathroom by an older bully who told him, “I am going to show you how I did people back in the day,” according to his parents.
News station WUSA9 said the horrible event happened Friday at C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School in Waldorf, a suburb 23 miles southeast of Washington, DC. The 7-year-old boy was taken to the hospital with a neck contusion.
“My second-grade child was hung in the boys’ bathroom by a fourth-grader,” the boy’s mother wrote on social media, the news source said.
She said, “I got the most upsetting phone call from the school telling me that my child was being rushed to Children’s Hospital in NW.” “I am mad and seeing red, but my son is here by God’s grace, and I will always be grateful!”
The boy went to the hospital and one of his injuries was written down as a neck contusion, which is caused by blunt force.
The boy’s parents, who did not want to be named, told the outlet, “If you look at my son, he has marks under his eyes that look like blood vessels. He still has bruises on his neck from being choked.”
“He is been traumatized.” “It will take time,” the boy’s mother said. “He is not going to get over this quickly.”
In a letter to parents, Charles County Public Schools confirmed the incident and said it was just “horseplay.” The boy’s family does not think this is a good enough explanation.
The thought does not make sense to me. How do you get caught on a hook when you are horseplaying? “Like, we need answers, I want answers, and we will not stop until we get them,” his mom told him.
The worried parent said, “My son did tell me that while they were in the bathroom, the little boy told him, ‘I am going to show you how I did people back in the day.’ That is why I think it is bullying.” “I have no idea how many other kids this has happened to.”
Even though the parents have taken their son out of the school, they still want the district to do a better job of keeping an eye on the kids.
“I want a rule, or at least someone to watch the hallways. Why are fourth graders and second graders using the same bathroom?” “They are split up in most schools,” the mother said. “This does not seem right to me.”
“These are all our kids. They are the future, so let us keep them safe.” It is like we take our kids to school every day and think they are safe, the boy’s dad said.