A Massachusetts highschool is in turmoil after a scholar went lacking days after receiving a savage beating from one other lady who made her lick the toilet ground.
A gloating good friend of the bully filmed the assault on Aliyah Konton at Mashpee Excessive College earlier than making certain that the humiliating footage went viral on Snapchat.
The 15-year-old had solely just lately moved to the varsity in Cape Cod and was making an attempt to ‘slot in’ in keeping with a classmate.
A college useful resource officer alerted police after discovering the video on Could 25, however dad and mom have been stored at midnight in regards to the assault till Aliyah disappeared eight days later.
‘The dearth of communication and the whole lack of accountability and penalties of perpetrators within the faculty system are past disgraceful,’ wrote a mom of three youngsters on the faculty.
Aliyah Konton, 15, disappeared days after receiving a savage beating from one other lady at Mashpee Excessive College in Massachusetts
A gloating confederate filmed as Aliyah’s tormentor made her lick the toilet ground
‘I hope to God she’s discovered secure and alive and people children on that video face the results of their horrific actions.’
The video opens with Aliyah standing alone in a college hall as her attacker squares as much as her and an viewers of scholars watches within the background.
They gasp in shock because the bully casually slaps her sufferer within the face earlier than sauntering away.
It then cuts to the varsity toilet the place the confederate has stationed themself to catch the second the bully strides by way of the door dragging a screaming Aliyah by her hair.
The 15-year-old begins sobbing as she is thrown by her hair in the direction of the cubicles on the finish of the room and punched once more within the face by her circling attacker
Aliyah places out an arm to fend off the lady but it surely affords no protection towards her agile attacker who lands a flurry of blows on her head.
A second later the younger bully all of a sudden factors a finger on the ground by the rubbish can.
‘Lick the bottom,’ she calls for.
Aliyah hesitates and is slapped within the head once more earlier than being dragged by her hair to the bottom and compelled to place her face to the ground.
Eight days later an ‘intense search utilizing a number of native, state and federal assets’ was underway after Aliyah disappeared from her Mashpee residence, information of the assault was launched, and oldsters reacted with fury to what they’d simply found.
But it surely was solely after Aliyah disappeared that folks came upon in regards to the assault
Classmates, Leah Holtz, mentioned that Aliyah had solely just lately joined the varsity. ‘She simply looks like she was making an attempt to slot in and simply making an attempt to make associates with all people,’ she advised WCVB.
Eight days later an ‘intense search utilizing a number of native, state and federal assets’ was underway after Aliyah disappeared from her Mashpee residence
‘It is terrible to seek out out about this horrific incident on Fb every week later, and never from the varsity itself,’ wrote Jessica Valois.
‘Why has the Mashpee faculty system not knowledgeable us of this example?’ demanded Corinne Shea.
‘Mashpee has all the time been one to show their heads when one thing is occurring, if it seems to be dangerous on them then they do not wanna speak about it,’ added Courtney Negron.
Residents of the small city started to debate organizing search events and, as footage of the incident unfold many started interesting to Aliyah herself.
Residents of the small city started to debate organizing search events and, as footage of the incident unfold
‘Aliyah you might be beloved and cared about by individuals who have by no means met you,’ wrote Heather Morel.
‘Please go someplace secure, message anybody on this thread, we’ll enable you. Our world wants you in it.’
‘My first thought was please let this lady know that life will get higher after highschool,’ Corine Shea added.
‘What occurred to her is tousled and completely NO ONE is laughing with these imply women.’
One in all her classmates, Leah Holtz, mentioned that Aliyah had solely just lately joined the varsity.
‘She simply looks like she was making an attempt to slot in and simply making an attempt to make associates with all people,’ she advised WCVB.
‘No scholar, no particular person, ought to ever be harmed in that approach,’ she added. ‘I simply really feel very sick to my abdomen as a result of I simply need her to be discovered.’
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‘Nonetheless not a peep from the varsity,’ wrote Michael DiMaggio on Tuesday
‘They’re selling Spirit Day? We, as dad and mom of a 6-year-old on this faculty system are significantly considering whether or not we must always maintain our youngster in a college system that lets this occur.’
However a day later two boys visiting Planet Health in close by Barnstable noticed a lady they thought they acknowledged from police lacking posters and advised the supervisor.
He rang police and the lacking lady was lastly rescued.
‘The city of Mashpee got here collectively for one in every of its personal and once more I’m glad to report she has been discovered secure,’ police mentioned.
In addition they introduced {that a} 13-year-old lady, who they didn’t determine, is now dealing with seven counts of assault and battery in Falmouth District Courtroom’s juvenile division.
A 13-year-old lady, who has not been named, is now dealing with seven counts of assault and battery
Mashpee colleges superintendent Patricia DeBoer refused to talk to reporters at a college committee assembly that night.
However information of Aliyah’s rescue has not assuaged the anger of individuals within the Massachusetts city.
‘What are the results for those who in video dragged her by hair into faculty toilet and hit her and made her lick the ground?’ requested Selma Parker. ‘Could us dad and mom get some solutions?’
‘The colleges must do a greater job,’ wrote Matt Bollinder.
‘They’re all discuss with these things and when it comes time to really defend children from bullies they flip the opposite approach.’
