{"id":128,"date":"2017-11-30T00:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T05:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2018-08-21T00:52:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T04:52:33","slug":"ridgewood-father-speaks-on-sons-brutal-beating-on-school-sports-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/ridgewood-father-speaks-on-sons-brutal-beating-on-school-sports-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgewood father speaks on son\u2019s brutal beating on school sports field"},"content":{"rendered":"

POSTED 7:12 PM, NOVEMBER 17, 2017, BY CHRISTIE DUFFY<\/p>\n

http:\/\/pix11.com\/2017\/11\/17\/exclusive-ridgewood-father-speaks-on-sons-brutal-beating-on-school-sports-field\/<\/p>\n

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. \u2014 Two New Jersey families have now filed suit against the Ridgewood School District, including students, and the social-media platform Snapchat after a teenage boy was video-taped being brutally beaten on school property.<\/p>\n

The violent assault, which left the teen with a shattered skull, occurred on October 27 and again on October 28 on a school sports field.<\/p>\n

“For the first week after I saw the video, I couldn\u2019t sleep. The image is just so horrifying,\u201d the father of the student beaten told PIX11 exclusively. He did not want himself or his son to be publicly identified and he did not want video of his son\u2019s beating broadcast. “He\u2019s got several titanium plates and screws to hold his skull and his face together.”<\/p>\n

He said his son\u2019s face is still numb and swollen from the assault. He\u2019s had reconstructive surgery and he may need a second operation if the wounds don\u2019t heal accordingly.<\/p>\n

“In the media I\u2019ve heard this called a fight,\u201d said the family\u2019s attorney, Rosemarie Arnold<\/a>. “This was not a fight, this was an ambush and a beat down.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the lawsuit and the teen\u2019s father, a bully had been spreading rumors and circulating seductive photos of a female classmate at the high school. The teen beaten allegedly approached this student inside the school library and asked him to stop. In return, the alleged bully ordered a friend on the wrestling team to pummel the teen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis poor child was the only one who came forward and said you really need to stop this,\u201d said Arnold. “And because he came forward, like he was taught, he got a beat down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teenage girl and the teen beaten are the two alleged victims who are suing.<\/p>\n

PIX11 contacted the Ridgewood Schools Superintendent for comment today. He referred us to earlier public statements published on the district\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

One reads: \u201c[We] will use this recent incident to address \u2018witness\u2019 behavior as a school community. It is highly unfortunate that the incident – which happened after school hours on district property – resulted in unnecessary and unacceptable violence.”<\/p>\n

New Jersey passed an anti-bullying bill of rights in 2010 in an effort to combat bullying in public schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is this whole thing now in high schools now, how they want you to try and intervene,\u201d said Arnold. “They have interviews and they have training materials, but what they don\u2019t do is they don\u2019t teach you how to safely intervene,\u201d said Arnold.<\/p>\n

“Frankly, I\u2019m disgusted,\u201d said the boy\u2019s father of the school\u2019s response to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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