Dupage Policy Journal

Several local parents have spoken out against disturbing video of several York High School students cheering and jeering the attack of a student with Down Syndrome in one of the school's bathrooms.

“This is disturbing. as a mom to a young child in elmhurst i am appalled by this behavior. i hope the district plans on expelling all those involved in the incident,” Elmhurst parent Livabeth Lamm said in response to the video. 

Naperville’s Tracy Hurley added her thoughts. 

“This is absolutely disgusting,” she said. Lamm, Hurley and others shared their thoughts before the video was removed from YouTube. 

It is available on Rumble.

According to Dupage Policy Journal, the video from the attack shows another student charge into the victim who falls backward to the ground before getting up and fleeing the scene among the jeers of a group of boys. The boy who perpetrated the attack holds his hands near the end of the video and says, “I did not do anything. I did not do anything.”

A change.org petition was also set up by student Mary Olivia Muti to highlight the issue.

“Hello, students in Elmhurst and Illinois. Yesterday, a student with Down syndrome was violently, physically contacted in a York High School bathroom. Not only was he physically attacked by several students but others watched and laughed. This has occurred numerous of times at our high school and surrounding schools that turn a blind eye to bullying. We the students of York, feel compelled for immediate, radical change for the better with appropriate consequences,” Muti wrote.

York High School Principal Shahe Bagdasarian downplayed the incident in a mass email to parents on Friday, saying it was an incident of "student pushing another student," according to Patch.