A family in Charles County is angry over their 7-year-old son’s hospitalization after an incident at his elementary school. The boy’s mother shared the incident online, and it received over 215,000 likes on Instagram.
She wrote, “My child who is a second grader was hung in the boys’ bathroom by a fourth grader. I received the most traumatizing phone call from the school stating that my child was being rushed to children’s hospital in NW … I’m feeling anger and seeing red, but my son is here by the grace of GOD, and I will forever be thankful!”
The angry parents told WUSA9, “If you look at my son, he has marks under his eyes, like blood vessels; he still has bruises on his neck from being choked.”
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The seven-year-old attends C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School in Waldorf, Maryland, where he is a second grader.
They added, “He’s traumatized. It’s going to take time. This is not something he’s going to just get over overnight.”
According to hospital records obtained from the family, one of his injuries is neck contusion caused by a blunt trauma. The nameless parents are looking for answers to the terrible problem.
Meanwhile, Charles County Public Schools incident in a statement that “two of our students were reportedly horseplaying in a school bathroom when one student’s jacket got caught on a stall door hook.”
“The student was not able to free themselves and the other student involved was also not able to help them. This student left the bathroom to seek help from staff and reported the incident to administrators. Administrators responded and were able to assist, but staff called 911 for additional precautionary medical support.”
The statement said that an initial 911 report resulted in a first responder call that shared a likely suicide attempt at the school. A community member shared that information on social media, raising some concerns that the school promptly resolved, the statement added.
The school has since apologized and praised the student who reported the incident.
But the 7-year-old boy’s mother still has questions: “It doesn’t make sense to me. If you’re horseplaying, how do you get caught on a hook? Like we need answers, I want answers, and we won’t stop till we get answers.”
According to his parents, they are giving their accounts in an effort to stop this from occurring to anyone else.
The boy’s mother recounted, “My son did tell me that when they were in the bathroom, he said the little boy told him, ‘I’m going to show you how I did people back in the day,’ that’s why I feel like it’s bullying. It’s no telling how many other kids this has happened to.”
The parents also expressed their desire for the school district to take action.
“I want to see a policy in place, at least hallway monitors, I want to know why is a fourth grader in the same bathroom as a second grader? Most schools have them divided. I feel this is very unacceptable, the seven-year-old’s mother said.
“These are all our children, and they are the future, so we just need to protect them. Like we sending our kids to school every day thinking that they are safe,” the father said.
According to ABC News, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland is currently investigating the incident.
