12 year old girl returns from overnight school trip with rope burns on her neck in Texas
According to her daughter, the class was playing with a rope
swing when the rope somehow ended up around her neck, but the mother doesn't
believe the story, she said "it looked like somebody had
ripped her neck
apart and stitched it back together."
According to the sixth grader's mum, her daughter said the
injury supposedly occurred after she helped her classmates move a rope. She
said she felt the rope wrap around her neck from behind and being pulled
tightly. She says she then fell to the ground and began being tugged backward.
After the tugging stopped, the student says none of her classmates attempted to
help her so she removed the rope from her neck.
The girl's school, Live Oak Classical, released a statement
saying that the student was injured by accident and she was helped immediately
by a chaperon that was present:
"The student received first aid treatment immediately
after the accident by a parent chaperon who is also a physician, and she was
able to enjoy the remained of the field trip, which lasted through the next
day," the statement read.
According to the daughter, the chaperone used petroleum
jelly and ibuprofen to treat her wounds.
Rougely thinks that her daughter may have been attacked
because she was black. She said there were 9 girls and 14 boys on that trip and
that her daughter was one of the only 2 black people on the trip. She is suing
the school.
The school thinks Ms Rougely is talking nonsense and have
reprimanded her through her attorney from continuing in that path.
A member of the board of directors in a statement said:
"The student and some of her classmates were playing
with a swing and an attached pull-rope on a field trip. The student received
first aid treatment immediately after the accident by a parent chaperone who is
also a physician, and she was able to enjoy the remainder of the field trip,
which lasted through the next day. Live Oak takes the safety of its students
seriously and is saddened that one of its family suffered an unfortunate
accident and injury.”
The statement said the girl’s attorney, Levi McCathern, who
also represents the Dallas Cowboys, asked the school to pay $2.7 million or he
would make the allegations public.'
NBC News reports that according to their sources no one has
been accused of any crime and all witnesses have been questioned and "each
independently established that the (racially motivated attack) accusation made
by the attorney is absolutely false."
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