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Mar 20, 2008 4:43 pm US/Central
Student Says He Was Attacked By School Volunteer
DALLAS (CBS News) ―
A 12-year-old Dallas student has visible wounds that he says he received when a school volunteer attacked him on Wednesday.
Student Mark Johnson says he was assaulted in the cafeteria of Frederick Douglass Elementary School.
When Johnson and his mother talked with CBS 11 News the boy explained that the incident began when the female volunteer told him, "You're ugly like your mama!" He said when he replied back, the woman attacked him.
"And then she came over there and grabbed me by my neck and started choking me," Johnson explained as tears rolled down his face. "And then we started fighting, and then the teachers came and pulled me off of her."
Officials with the Dallas Independent School District have confirms there was an altercation and that volunteer named Dashayla Black was given a citation from school district police, for a Class 'C' assault. Officials had no other information about Black and CBS 11 News was unable to reach the woman for comment.
Johnson's mother, Cassandra Reagan, pointed to bruises on the boys neck, scratches on his head, and what the family says is a bite mark on his forearm… all injuries they say he suffered in the fight.
"I get up there and my baby is covered with bruises all around his neck," Reagan said. "She bit him. She hit him in the mouth. She assaulted my child and I don't feel that that's [the school] a safe place for my child."
Johnson was not held a fault and was invited back to school today but went home after a short time in tears, too traumatized by the past events to stay. "I got so scared to where, if I just looked at a teacher I thought that she'll jump on me," he said.
The school district says it's the principal's decision about whether or not to let Black back on campus. A police investigation into the incident continues.
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