Apr 26, 2008 7:18 pm US/Eastern
Parent Reports More Trouble At Balt. City School
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
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An attempted sexual assault is reported by a special needs student's parent at an already troubled school.
More disturbing allegations arise at an already troubled Baltimore City high school.
Mike Hellgren reports following two high profile beatings, there are now reports of a sexual assault.
A mother says her child was wrestled to the floor in an attempted sex assault.
It's one of many reports of vicious attacks at Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore City.
The special education student's mother tells
Eyewitness News, three male students assaulted her daughter, leaving her bruised and scared.
"My daughter said they threw her on the floor and tried to take her clothes off of her but they couldn't get them off cause she was fighting them off," said the victim's mother.
City schools confirm police responded to what they're calling a fourth- degree sex assault.
The mother says she wants her daughter out of the school. Right now she still attends the school.
"She's terrified, but by she being special ed, we had to talk to her and try to explain to her what's going on," said the mother.
National attention focused on Reginald F. Lewis High School after video surfaced of a student beating art teacher Jolita Berry.
"They'll jump you. They don't care who you are," said Berry.
On Thursday a student assaulted a photographer from the Baltimore Examiner.
Arianna Starns was taking pictures for a special report on school violence following the videotaped teacher attack when she says a male student grabbed her, pushed her backward and threatened her.
"He pointed his finger to her head, you know as if to make sort of a gun," said Stephen Janis with the Baltimore Examiner.
The high-profile violence has drawn outrage from lawmakers.
"It is unacceptable. I am very disturbed by what I am hearing," said Mayor Sheila Dixon.
"What is at the bottom of these children that they're so disturbed," said Senator Barbara Mikulski.
Jolita Berry is not alone as a teacher being attacked. Across the country, 10 percent of teachers in city or urban schools are victims.
More public school teachers are attacked than private school teachers. They're five times more likely to be threatened.
"There are more threats now on them than there have ever been," said Marietta English with the Baltimore City Teachers' Union.
"It's terrible. I don't really want her in that school cause I don't feel as though she's safe," said the girl's mother.
The special education student's mother says she has filed charges against the teens she believes are responsible.
She says she found out about the assault because she heard her daughter talking to a friend about it on a cell phone.
Police are now reviewing pictures taken by the Baltimore Examiner photographer to try to identify her attacker.
At this point, no arrests have been made.
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