Pennsylvania father outraged after his five-year-old son was ‘attacked’ by fourth-grader with special needs while ‘the teacher wasn’t looking’

By Isabelle Stanley for Dailymail.Com

18:56 May 23, 2024, updated 19:33 May 23, 2024

A Pennsylvania father is demanding answers after a fourth-grade student “threw his five-year-old son headfirst into a table,” leaving him with a cut and missing teeth.

Stephen Callahan’s video of the alleged attack went viral on TikTok last week, in which he criticized Keystone Elementary School for failing to supervise the child and refusing to share footage of the incident.

Callahan said his son, Grayson, was attacked by a special needs student in the school cafeteria on May 16 while the student’s teacher “wasn’t paying attention.”

Grayson was hospitalized with a deep cut on his forehead and missing teeth and is “too scared to go to school,” according to his father.

He said, “A teacher’s assistant who works with special needs students in the district was not paying attention and did not treat the child as she should have, and a fourth-grade student with special needs attacked my son.”

Callahan said the school called his wife to tell her their child had been in an accident.

He rushed to school to find Grayson, where he said teachers repeatedly told him it was an accident but wouldn’t give him details.

They rushed the boy to the hospital with a long cut on his forehead and missing teeth.

Callahan later spoke to school principal Mark Wilicki and demanded to know what had happened.

He said Wilicki told him that a “special needs student grabbed my son by the back and threw him headfirst onto a table, damaging his entire face.”

The incident was captured on a surveillance camera, but Callahan said the school refused to show him the video even though his doctors asked for it.

Callahan shared an update on TikTok on Sunday, saying, “The situation is getting uglier and uglier.”

“At the end of the day, I need answers.” “There is no reason why a fourth grader should be near my son.”

Callahan is now taking legal action against the school, but made it clear that he believes neither the child nor his parents are at fault.

The family’s attorney, David Langsam, told Fox News Digital: “It’s probably the most disturbing thing to take your children to a place where they’re supposed to be learning, where they’re supposed to be safe, and then get a call that something so horrible has happened to them.”

He added: “The physical injuries are of course serious, but it will take some time to fully understand the extent of the psychological injuries. They may well far outweigh what was done to him physically.”

The Bristol Township School District said it is investigating the incident.

They said: “On Thursday, May 16, a Keystone Elementary School kindergarten student was injured when he was pushed in the cafeteria by a fourth-grade student from a special education program at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (BCIU).”

“We would like to apologize to the student and his family and wish the child a speedy recovery. Our primary concern is the health and safety of all of our students, and when a student is injured at school, we are saddened.”