Portland high school staff stood and watched bully strike girl 80 times, $2m lawsuit alleges

Staff astatine a Portland precocious schoolhouse 'stood and watched' arsenic a pupil savagely struck a younger miss much than 80 times successful little than a minute, a $2million suit from the victim's parent claims. 

Lannette Kali filed the suit against Portland Public Schools connected behalf of her 15-year-old daughter, Dania Kali, who was brutally beaten by an unidentified older pupil astatine Roosevelt High School successful February. 

Her helpless girl was hit, kicked, slapped and grabbed successful the schoolhouse hallway, leaving her with a concussion, 2 achromatic eyes, headaches, a swollen nose, nausea and imaginativeness problems - each portion unit members looked on, 'declining to intervene,' the suit, obtained by DailyMail.com, said. 

The ineligible filing alleges that Dania was targeted by the elder due to the fact that she didn't similar her look erstwhile she walked by. 

The horrified parent is suing the schoolhouse territory for 'incompetence and apathy,' arsenic her girl is inactive trying to retrieve from the beating, the family's attorney, Jacob Johnstun, told the outlet. 

 The altercation began aft the elder pistillate pupil asked Dania wherefore she was ' '"side-eyeing" her,' and though the teen tried to explicate she didn't mean immoderate harm, 'the different pupil viciously attacked her,' according to the filing. 

'Without provocation, the different pupil knocked Dania to the ground, wherever Dania was kicked, hit, grabbed, and slapped,' the suit detailed, adding that her hairsbreadth was 'also violently yanked.' 

While she was being assaulted, Dania failed to get up oregon shield her look from the deed 'because her backpack restricted her movement,' the suit stated.  

After her girl was attacked, Lannette shared a video of the incident, posted on Snapchat by different student, titled 'Just different mean time astatine velt.' 

Although Snapchat deletes videos aft 24 hours, Lannette recorded the clip connected her compartment telephone for impervious of the fight. 

Johnstun said that the suit volition let the teen's household to get a transcript of schoolhouse surveillance video of the beating from aggregate angles. 

According to the lawsuit, the vicious combat ended erstwhile 'one schoolhouse worker yet entered the country and pulled the attacker disconnected Dania.' 

Dania was not offered immoderate aesculapian attraction until Lannette arrived astatine the school, aboriginal taking her to an urgent attraction halfway to get checked out, the lawsuit, filed successful Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges. 

After the attack, Dania's parent tried to interaction the school, but she 'was rebuffed erstwhile she made attempts to summation minimal information from the schoolhouse truthful she could amended support her girl successful the future,' the suit stated. 

In April, 2 months aft the incident, Lannette told Oregon Live that schoolhouse officials refused to springiness her the sanction of the different student. 

The schoolhouse besides told the disquieted parent that her girl did not cognize her attacker and was caught by surprise. 

Valerie Feder, the Director of Media Relations for the schoolhouse district, antecedently told the outlet that it does not merchandise the names of students who allegedly battle oregon bully others. 

Feder added that constabulary would request to record subpoenas for surveillance footage, according to the outlet. 

Months aft the attack, Dania is inactive suffering from her injuries, the suit alleges. 

She had to miss 9 days of schoolhouse and couldn't work oregon constitute for agelong periods of time, according to the lawsuit. 

The filing besides claims that the schoolhouse did not decently accommodate Dania erstwhile she returned, failing her successful astir of her classes and making her to be summertime schoolhouse for 4 weeks.

The teen was precocious told she needs to be 1 twelvemonth of therapy astatine a caput wounded session to assistance her with her dizziness and equilibrium issues arsenic a effect of the attack, Johnstun said. 

The Portland Police Department told DailyMail.com that it could not remark connected pending litigation.

The City Attorney's Office told Dailymail.com they are besides 'unable to provide immoderate comments.' 

DailyMail.com contacted Portland Public Schools for comment.