A six-year-old Georgia girl was sent to hospital on Thursday after allegedly being attacked by a fifth grader at her school.
Cheryl Tackett, the mother of Lanira Ladewig-Watkins, said her daughter was “viciously” assaulted by an older student at Oakland Elementary School in Henry County.
“She was choking [Lanira], and banging her head viciously on the toilet, and covering her mouth,” Tackett told 11 Alive News, an affiliate of NBC News.
“The girl said she wanted to talk to my daughter,” Tackett said. “She pulled her into the bathroom and proceeded with the attack.”
A first grade teacher at the school stopped the attack but found Lanira “lying bloodied on the floor.”
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“I just started crying,” Tackett said. “I couldn’t do anything but cry.”
Even though it’s not yet known exactly why the unidentified fifth grader allegedly attacked Lanira, Tackett said it’s not the first time her daughter’s had trouble with the student.
According to 11 Alive News, Tackett had warned the school that the fifth grader was “dangerous” and had even threatened to beat her daughter up once when they were on a school bus coming home.
“That’s my baby,” Tackett said. “Who would attack an innocent six-year-old?”
The school district is aware of the incident but will only say there is a case going on involving “two minors.”
Tackett said every time her daughter tries to talk about the attack she gets “traumatized” and now “doesn’t want to go in bathrooms by herself.”
The fifth grader had been charged in juvenile court on May 19.