A family of Venezuelans denounced that their teenage daughter was assaulted with insults and blows along with a friend for speaking Spanish on a school bus in Ohio, United States, when she was returning home following receiving classes.
So far the school has not taken action on the incident.
“We really didn’t think something like this would happen, it never crossed our minds,” Freddy Palma, a Venezuelan, told the share what your daughter experienced con Telemundo News.
As reported by the Spanish-speaking US media, Isabella arrived home on April 14 “with a blow to the head and pain in the arm.” The teenager fears she will be raped once more so she doesn’t want to go back to school in New Albany, in Columbus.
Her parents had to take her to a health center to treat her injuries.
The facts
The young Venezuelan was returning home on the school bus and was sitting next to her friend Antonella speaking in Spanish. An action that she does daily. “A child begins to make fun of her, to imitate her, to make fun of the way they were talking,” her father told Telemundo News.
“My girl’s friend tells her to please shut up, that they weren’t talking to him,” she added, and another minor reacted annoyed and threatened them because “no one told her brother what to do.”
Palma explained that the attack occurred once they got off the school bus. In a video that she shared on Instagram, it can be seen that Antonella questions, in English, the girl who threatened them.
“When my daughter’s friend turned around, the girl savagely attacked her from behind,” she said.
After the altercation, a fight breaks out between several teenagers and Isabella (the Venezuelan), trying to defend her friend, is beaten.
“I don’t want to see her or her brother once more,” Isabella told Telemundo News At the same time, he insisted that he was afraid of going back to school, although he assured that despite the incident, he does not plan to stop speaking Spanish.
“I don’t care, I’m going to continue speaking my language, I don’t care if people are racist,” he said.
Isabella’s parents reported that the school has done nothing regarding it. Glane Barroso, the girl’s mother, told the media that the school only offered her daughter a special class program so that she can continue your educationbut at a distance.
