Pennsylvania father outraged after son, five, is ‘attacked’ by special needs fourth grader while ‘teacher wasn’t looking’

A Pennsylvania father is demanding answers after a fourth-grade student “threw” his 5-year-old son headfirst into a table, leaving him with a gash and missing teeth.

Stephen Callahan’s video of the alleged attack went viral on TikTok last week when he criticized Keystone Elementary School for failing to monitor the child and refusing to share footage of the incident.

Callahan said his son Grayson was attacked by a special needs student in the school cafeteria on May 16 while the student’s teacher was “not paying attention.”

Grayson was taken to hospital with a deep cut on his forehead and missing teeth and is now “too scared to go to school,” his father said.

He said, “A teacher’s assistant who works with students with special needs in the province did not pay attention or treat the child as she should, and a fourth grade student attacked my son.”

Callahan said the school called his wife to tell her their child had been involved in an accident.

He rushed to the school to find Grayson, where he said teachers repeatedly told him “it was an accident” but would not give him details.

They rushed the boy to the hospital with a long gash on his forehead and missing teeth.

Later, Callahan spoke to school principal Mark Wilicki and demanded to know what happened.

He said Wilicki told him that a “special needs student grabbed my son by the back and threw him headfirst into a table, causing all the damage to his face.”

The incident was captured on a surveillance camera, but Callahan said the school refused to share the video with him despite his doctors asking him to see it.

Callahan shared an update on TikTok on Sunday, saying, “The situation is getting uglier and uglier.

“At the end of the day, I need answers. There is no reason why a fourth grader should be near my son.”

Callahan is now taking legal action against the school, but made it clear he does not think the child or the child’s parents are to blame.

Grayson was taken to hospital with a deep cut on his forehead and missing teeth and is now ‘too scared to go to school’, according to his father

Family attorney David Langsam told Fox News Digital: “It’s probably the most upsetting thing to take your kids somewhere where they need to learn, where they need to be safe, and then get the call that something as horrible as this has happened to them.”

He added: ‘While the physical injuries are serious, it will obviously take some time for the emotional injuries to be truly understood, and they could well dramatically outweigh what happened to him physically.’

The Bristol Township School District said they are investigating the incident.

They said, “On Thursday, May 16, a Keystone Elementary Preschool student was injured when he was pushed into the cafeteria by a fourth-grade student in a Bucks County Intermediate Unit (BCIU) special education program.

‘We apologize to the student and his family and wish the child a speedy recovery. Our primary concern is the health and safety of all our students, and if a student is injured at school, we are saddened.”