Boy, 15, who mercilessly pummeled a 9-year-old girl on a Florida school bus is charged with battery

A teenager who was filmed hitting a nine-year-old girl over the head on a school bus has been charged with assault.

The 15-year-old can be seen in the sickening footage with another boy hitting the third-grader girl over the head last Wednesday while others filmed the brutal beating.

None of his fellow students at Coconut Palm K-8 Academy in Homestead, Florida, were involved in the attack, which was filmed by another student.

Instead, their classmates filmed the two boys’ merciless attack and began cheering them on throughout the attack as they watched.

Her mother, who gave her name only as Jenni, said she felt the “amount of aggression” towards her daughter was “unnecessary”.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle ruled that the school police officer who gave the boy a civil citation “was not enough.”

She said: “We believe that, based on the evidence and the circumstances, the use of a civil subpoena was inconsistent with the level of violence displayed by the 15-year-old against his much younger and smaller victim.”

“As a result, we have filed criminal assault charges before our juvenile courts.”

The girl’s mother told Local 10 that violence in and around the school is overwhelming administrators, and administrators are urging her to enroll her three children in a different school.

Their mother claims that her two older children have also been bullied during their brief stint at the school, adding that they have done nothing to help since they joined on January 9.

She said her 10-year-old son was also attacked on the same bus ride, saying he was hit ‘out of nowhere’.

Speaking after the charges, he said: “I just hope he has received the rehabilitation he needs.” The amount of aggression that he did towards my daughter, I thought was unnecessary.

‘This needs to be attended to immediately. Our children are in danger at school where we rely on other people to do their jobs.

‘That is not justifiable. It doesn’t matter what was said. Our children must learn that with violence nothing is solved.

‘My goal is not to incriminate any other child. My goal is to make sure they have the safety of the children to make sure this doesn’t keep happening.’

Miami-Dade School Police confirmed the offenders were arrested after they responded to the incident around 4:10 p.m. Wednesday.

Authorities said they evaluated two children for injuries and then turned them over to the care of their parents.

In a statement, they said: ‘The safety and well-being of our students is of the utmost importance.

‘This school district goes to great lengths to promote the values ​​of restraint and respect, as well as responsible use of social media. We ask that parents reinforce these principles at home.’

His mother added: ‘All ages are on that bus and it’s overloaded. It’s so crazy because there’s all this yelling on the bus and the two adults on the bus, the bus (driver) and the bus attendant, just sit in the front.

“We have had problems before with my son and the children on the bus, and also in the cafeteria and at dismissal.

‘I already drew the line, and I was also on the phone with the district, I spoke to someone from the district, and the only thing they could advise me was to continue to speak to the principal and stop a reported harasser.

‘You are taking care of our children, you are still responsible for them. That’s why you have a job.

‘Not just to teach them, but if you see something going on in your classroom, you don’t necessarily have to physically intervene, but call someone who can. Because if someone’s kid ends up dead, it’s the school’s fault.