Horrifying moment brave disabled girl, 12, desperately tries to fight back after being pulled out of her wheelchair by cruel bullies at Orlando middle school
The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was pulled from her wheelchair and beaten by bullies in a horrific attack has spoken out about the abuse.
Footage of two disturbing attacks on the 12-year-old in the bathroom and an elevator at Orlando’s Conway Middle School shows her being dragged around like a rag doll and pushed onto the cold tile floor during an attack filmed by fellow students.
DailyMail.com has decided not to publish the disturbing video and not to identify the child.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, her mother revealed that she was bullied by the same girls for weeks.
‘I feel sick when I see that video. I keep thinking about what if she was paralyzed or never woke up?’ she said.
‘I’m angry and disappointed, how can I drop my daughter off every day without wondering what could happen? She’s defenseless, she can’t walk.’
‘I see her on her knees praying to God to make her ‘normal’.
The girl’s mother said she was furious and distraught that her daughter (left) was attacked and the footage was posted on Instagram.
Hall’s daughter suffers from a rare spinal condition and has undergone six operations since the age of five. She was told that she would not live longer than 10 years.
The gruesome video starts with the victim on her knees. One of the bullies grabs her head and pushes her onto the bathroom floor.
The disabled girl tries to get up and retaliate, but the much larger attacker grabs her arm and swings her across the room.
She tries to fight back again, but is pushed against the wall as the attacker and the filming girl laugh hysterically.
The girl may eventually stumble back into her wheelchair.
Seemingly proud of her cruelty, the girl who posted the images added the caption: “I will fight with SB in the wheelchair.”
The gruesome video starts with the victim on her knees before the other girl grabs her head and pushes it onto the bathroom floor
The disabled girl tries to get up and tries to retaliate, but the much larger attacker grabs her by the arm and swings her across the room.
Hall said she first became aware of the attack when another parent saw the video on Instagram and contacted her.
The girl’s father, who has custody over the weekend, then contacted her to say a parent had also told him and that he was on his way to pick her up.
He entered the school and explained what had happened to the school administrators, neither of whom contacted him.
When Hall finally spoke to her daughter, she was with the girl who attacked her – who picked up the phone and claimed they were just playing.
‘I told her that my daughter was in a wheelchair for a reason and that they couldn’t play like that. But I was deceived,β she explained.
The girl is thrown across the room in a full circle after the larger student grabs her arm
She tries to fight back again, but is pushed against the wall as the attacker and the filming girl laugh hysterically
The girl may eventually stumble back into her wheelchair. The girl who posted the images added the caption: ‘I will fight SB in the wheelchair’
She soon discovered that other videos of sickening attacks on her daughter were circulating online, along with threatening messages and messages.
When she asked her daughter about the attacks, she revealed that she had been bullied for weeks.
‘She said, ‘Mom, they do this to me all the time.’
‘It hurts me because I didn’t know my daughter was going through this. She needs to feel safe and protected and not be afraid to tell people.β
Hall said she was angry that the school did nothing about the bullying and didn’t tell her about the attack before she saw it on social media.
“I’m furious, I haven’t slept or eaten in days,” she said.
‘It’s scary that she went through this and no one at school did anything about it. If they had done that at the beginning, this wouldn’t have happened.
The 12-year-old was attacked in the bathroom and elevator of Conway Middle School (pictured) in Orlando
‘Disabled children need to be cared for all day and they should have informed me from the start.
‘Both the school and the girls who did this are treating it as a joke. It’s not, and it’s not horseplay: it’s bullying and abuse.β
Principal Joshua Bing sent a message to parents saying the school immediately opened an investigation.
βThe school administration is aware of several students who have been involved in a number of extremely disturbing altercations that have occurred on campus,β he said.
It remains unclear whether the girls involved have been punished. Conway Middle School did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
The girl suffers from chondrodysplasia punctata, a rare condition.
Her genetic defects include shorter femurs and one of her legs is shorter than the other.
The condition can include skeletal abnormalities, distinctive facial features, intellectual disability and breathing problems.