A Missouri mother is demanding action after she said her son received third-degree burns while being attacked by another student with a glue gun.
A Missouri mom posted on social media that her black son was attacked with a glue gun after other racial incidents had been reported at the St. Louis area high school.
Hamilton posted Tuesday on Facebook that her son, who she says is a sophomore but did not name, was repeatedly attack by another student at Ladue Horton Watkins High School on Nov. 10 with a glue gun. The alleged attack happened just two days after Republican Donald Trump's presidential win, which set-off a slew of racist and violent incidents across the US.
"Several times this student poked my sons arm with a hot glue gun, squeezed out a big blotch in my sons chair, not knowing he sat in it, resulting in his bottom being burned," Hamilton wrote on Facebook. "That wasn't it. This student continued by squeezing out hot glue on a piece of paper and slapping it on my sons arm. He now has a 3rd degree burn."
She said she went to the school the next day to report the attack, but administrators wouldn't meet with her until the following week Tuesday. When that day finally came around, and she still had not heard from the school's principal, Brad Griffith, she posted the photos and comments about her son's injury online.
Ladue Police Department Chief Richard Wooten confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Lynette Hamilton and her son came forward on Saturday and gave a victim statement. Police are now investigating the attack along with the school district.
“This is sickening, what is happening to our children and the response and action the district is taking when it comes to African-American students,” Hamilton added. “It saddens me.”
Lynette Hamilton / Via Facebook: DontNvME
Ladue Schools communications director Susan Downing told the New York Daily News that the attack was not racially motivated, and that the student who was involved is Hispanic. He was suspended for a week.
On the same day of the attack, a group of white students were reportedly heard chanting Trump's name toward black students on the school bus, and one offender allegedly said black students should "sit in the back," the St. Louis American reported. Two students were also reportedly disciplined for this incident. Ladue school officials did not repsond to a request from BuzzFeed News for further information.
Hamilton said on Facebook on Wednesday that she has now talked to school officials, but only connected with the Board of Directors after attending a meeting held on Tuesday.
"I've spoken with the board of directors as of yesterday ONLY because they held the emergency meeting because of the school bus incident. Not because they contacted me back or followed up with me because I went to the meeting and spoke about it and media was there," Hamilton said.
The punishment of the student who attacked her son was not severe enough, she told KMOX, calling it “unacceptable.”
“There was an African-American student, a couple of years ago, that was charged with attempted assault on another student,” Hamilton said. “He was expelled for 180 days … because he was African-American.”
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