Well, here's the story.
A kid that Matt goes to school with (the kid is in another class of the same grade) and rides the bus with showed up here tonight and invited Matt to go and have a snowball fight. Matt wanted to go so I found out where they were going and told Matt to be back in one hour. In forty minutes, Matt showed up. He was hurt and couldn't even speak he was so upset. I got him calmed down enough for him to tell me he got beat up. After determining that he wasn't severely injured, I got him out of his winter gear and got him to tell the whole story.
Seems this kid brought Matt to some kids house, tried to get another teenager (no idea how old) to come out, had another kid from grade 7 there and two more teenagers (around 15) there. This one kid wouldn't come out so they had a bit of a snowball fight then the child that had came and got Matt from my house, said "wanna see a fight" shoved Matt face first in the snow, pounced on his back, pinned Matt's arms at his hips with his knees (Matt's left side is very sore from this) and proceeded to take 6 or 7 jabs at the back of Matt's head. One of the other kids jumped on and crushed Matt. Matt couldn't breathe (he has a very sore chest now) and it took another kid, yet again, to tackle the one punching him to get him off of Matt.
At this point Matt told me he used all his effort to get up and came straight home without speaking to any of them. Weirdly, the kid that beat him up walked him halfway home.
So after calling my friend here and asking what the hell do I do. I called the police. It took almost 30 minutes to get through the line and arrange for an Officer to come and take a statement. I then waited until 11pm for them to come. I called back and they told me they would call me back if no one could come. They called me back and have arranged to come at 8am.
Now I also have to call Matt's principal and Matt's therapist. Matt doesn't want to leave the house again. He doesn't want to go to school, he doesn't want to get on the bus. Can't say I blame him much there.
Not only am I upset that my kid just got beat up (and it sounds like it was a set up to beat him up to begin with) but all the hard work and great progress Matt made just went flying out the window. This was the FIRST time Matt has left the house with a "friend" to go and play in over a YEAR!
I don't even know where to begin on this one. Matt is having trouble sleeping because he's scared to go to school. He doesn't want to get on a bus. He's staying home for the morning as he has to speak to the police, we need to inform the principal and I have to get a hold of his therapist, however I don't know yet what will happen in the afternoon.
I have choice words about this right now. None of them are pretty.
bec
A kid that Matt goes to school with (the kid is in another class of the same grade) and rides the bus with showed up here tonight and invited Matt to go and have a snowball fight. Matt wanted to go so I found out where they were going and told Matt to be back in one hour. In forty minutes, Matt showed up. He was hurt and couldn't even speak he was so upset. I got him calmed down enough for him to tell me he got beat up. After determining that he wasn't severely injured, I got him out of his winter gear and got him to tell the whole story.
Seems this kid brought Matt to some kids house, tried to get another teenager (no idea how old) to come out, had another kid from grade 7 there and two more teenagers (around 15) there. This one kid wouldn't come out so they had a bit of a snowball fight then the child that had came and got Matt from my house, said "wanna see a fight" shoved Matt face first in the snow, pounced on his back, pinned Matt's arms at his hips with his knees (Matt's left side is very sore from this) and proceeded to take 6 or 7 jabs at the back of Matt's head. One of the other kids jumped on and crushed Matt. Matt couldn't breathe (he has a very sore chest now) and it took another kid, yet again, to tackle the one punching him to get him off of Matt.
At this point Matt told me he used all his effort to get up and came straight home without speaking to any of them. Weirdly, the kid that beat him up walked him halfway home.
So after calling my friend here and asking what the hell do I do. I called the police. It took almost 30 minutes to get through the line and arrange for an Officer to come and take a statement. I then waited until 11pm for them to come. I called back and they told me they would call me back if no one could come. They called me back and have arranged to come at 8am.
Now I also have to call Matt's principal and Matt's therapist. Matt doesn't want to leave the house again. He doesn't want to go to school, he doesn't want to get on the bus. Can't say I blame him much there.
Not only am I upset that my kid just got beat up (and it sounds like it was a set up to beat him up to begin with) but all the hard work and great progress Matt made just went flying out the window. This was the FIRST time Matt has left the house with a "friend" to go and play in over a YEAR!
I don't even know where to begin on this one. Matt is having trouble sleeping because he's scared to go to school. He doesn't want to get on a bus. He's staying home for the morning as he has to speak to the police, we need to inform the principal and I have to get a hold of his therapist, however I don't know yet what will happen in the afternoon.
I have choice words about this right now. None of them are pretty.
bec