Teenage girl is attacked by three students on Sinaloa Middle School campus sparking anger among parents

A teenage girl was attacked by three students on a California high school campus, sparking outrage among concerned parents.

Video of the horrific brawl shows a young girl in gray pants being knocked to the ground by a group of students at Sinaloa Middle School in Novato on Friday.

Eight girls between the ages of 12 and 14 were arrested in connection with the assault. Marin independent magazine reported. Two students were injured.

Parents said this was not the first time such a violent attack had occurred on school grounds, and that past incidents were not fully addressed by school administrators.

“A fight is one thing, if someone is attacked by a group of people it has to be dealt with in a certain way and I feel like the school has focused their voice on that and kept it to a minimum,” said Jim McAlpine , a father of a student, said KTVU.

The video shows the moment the brutal fight breaks out as a girl, wearing gray trousers and a black hoodie, is punched in the face by a girl before two other women join in.

In another clip, the three girls are still sitting on top of the student, while a male student intervenes and appears to try to break it up.

As he does this, a student wearing a bright orange backpack moves towards the fight with another student, while a large crowd screams in the background.

In an email about the incident, Sinaloa Middle School principal Christy Stocker said the students knew there would be a fight the day before and that the second student was injured when she tried to intervene.

“Yesterday word apparently got out among the students that this fight would take place during lunch,” Stocker wrote.

“This resulted in a very large stampede of our students (several hundred) rushing across campus to join the fray to see it happen.”

She added that the “crowd” of students ran through campus, causing others to fall and “literally be run over by others.”

Christy Stocker, principal of Sinaloa Middle School, said the students knew there would be a fight the day before and the second student was injured when she tried to intervene

Jim McAlpine, father of a student, said: “I feel like the school is trying to address the issue in a way that is not direct.”

The principal added: “Please know that serious consequences have been imposed on the students who caused bodily harm to the other student.”

Novato Police Sgt. Alan Bates told Marin Independent Journal that the eight students were arrested and booked into the Marin County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime and assault.

On Wednesday, staff at the juvenile detention center said some of the unnamed students were still in custody, while others had been released.

The two students, who have not been named, left with minor injuries and were treated at a nearby hospital before being released, Bates said.

On Tuesday, more than 200 Sinaloa Middle School parents gathered at a community meeting in the school’s library and addressed Stocker and a team of Novato Unified School District administrators.

During the meeting, the parents of the two injured teenagers said their children were doing well physically but were emotionally shaken, Marin Independent Journal reported.

Julie Synyard, Novato Unified’s executive director for educational services, said, “We are doing everything we can to keep our children safe.”

Stocker told parents that the school will ban the use of cell phones to record videos unless they anonymously send the footage to the STOPit app, which goes directly to police.

“From now on, any admission to campus will have serious consequences,” Stocker added.

The student in gray pants is beaten by others (left). Three girls came towards her while others watched and shouted

Stocker said a “huge stampede” of students rushed to the fight that broke out on the school grounds

After the forum, McAlpine said, “I feel like the school is trying to address the issue in a way that is not direct.”

“So they don’t want to make a lot of confessions, they try to avoid saying a lot of things. I believe they care, but they care much more about their reputation.”

McAlpine told KTVU that his daughter “doesn’t like coming to school one day.” Being a sixth grader coming to school scared is a big, big deal,” McAlpine added.

Gina, a mother of a student, said, “We have guys who volunteered information, they would come in there. They would help, but in today’s society you can’t do that, they were afraid they would get into trouble themselves.’

Bates said police are currently investigating the motive behind the massive brawl, which he called “schoolyard tension.”