Chicago mom & two kids jumped by gang of school children while walking home from Orville Bright Elementary School, in the South Deering neighborhood.
Outrage has ensued following viral video showing a Chicago mother and her two young children being ‘jumped’ on by a gang of school children.
Corshawnda Hatter, 33, was walking with her son and daughter on South Bensley Avenue in the South Deering neighborhood on Monday at about 3 p.m. when they were ambushed and attacked. At the time, the trio were walking home from Orville Bright Elementary School.
Captured video shows the children laughing and mocking the mother and children before cornering them against a chain-link fence. Hatter tries to protect her children before the attackers begin punching her and drag her to the ground, where she is mercilessly kicked and beaten.
Attack on Chicago mom and kids stems from ongoing school bullying
Hatter and her son were treated at a hospital for injuries sustained in the attack in the aftermath.
The attack according to FOX32 happened mere blocks from Orville Elementary school where the children had left minutes earlier. According to the mother, the the situation stemmed from bullying her 9-year-old son was enduring at school.
On Tuesday, dozens of people showed up at the school demanding accountability and calling for students to be expelled. Hatter described what happened to her at the impromptu gathering.
‘I asked my kids to come to the next side of the street with me, so they wouldn’t get jumped,’ she recalled speaking to WGN-TV.
‘So we kept walking. They followed us all the way,” she added. “And then they fought my son and hit my son first. … Then they dragged me in the grass and pulled my little baby’s hair out.’
Carshawnda Hatter, a 33-year-old mother from #Chicago, spoke out after she and her children were attacked by students Monday while walking home from Orville Bright Elementary School on the Far South Side. pic.twitter.com/bpRz8cQuA3
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South Side mom and her two children traumatized
‘I can’t sleep because I wake up in the middle of the night with that vision in my head of my son calling my name to help him and I couldn’t do nothing for him. That really hurt me the most,’ Hatter recalled.
Others told the outlet that the students had been terrorizing the neighborhood but that parents were to blame.
‘It’s been an ongoing thing in this community, and the parents don’t take accountability for anything their kids do,’ said one parent. ‘If my kids were being messy, I’m going to come out here and let it be known. I’m going to shut it down.’
Will school take action against involved children and address school bullying?
Chicago Public Schools released a statement offering few details.
‘We are horrified by the attack on this family, and we are working collaboratively with city departments and agencies to provide support to the victims of the attack. CPS is coordinating closely with the Mayor’s Office, CPD, CHA, and other city departments to provide additional support to the family,’ read the statement in part. ‘School administrators, teachers, and support staff work with students to create an open environment where conflicts and grievances can be addressed.’
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson taking to social media and called the attack ‘unacceptable’, saying he was deeply disturbed by the incident.
‘No mother should be that helpless and be targeted by children inside of her own community,’ State Sen. Willie Preston said.
Hatter said outside the school that her son had been previously bullied by students.
‘I’m trying to get justice for my son,’ the parent said.
‘And you deserve it!’ a supporter responded.
CPD said no arrests had been made but that the department had increased the police presence at the school — for the rest of the week. School officials to date had to date not identified any of the alleged children involved or censured them.
