An autistic boy was left in tears after he was bullied on the first day at the secondary school at Colchester Academy.
12-year-old Harrison Fernandez was bullied at the school for three months before being pulled out of school.
His mother Leanne told he was punched, beaten, and had been verbally bullied at the school for three months.
Leanne told he had been beaten by a group of kids at school almost every day for three months. He was knocked and pushed around that left him with bruises and swollen face.
He would cry and try to harm himself.
When his 34-year-old mother realized the bullying incidents were severe, she decided to pull him out of school.
His mother Leanne said: “Obviously it all started off verbally with them saying he was gay, he walked gay, he looked gay, he talked gay.”
“But on the second day, it escalated to physical. They tried ‘peanut-ing’ the tie and it came off and they started pushing him and it continued out of school.”
Harrison has had orange juice poured down the back of his neck and food taken away from him.
One kid at his school even threatened him to ‘stamp on his skull’.
The mother said Harrison just wanted to make friends at his school. He would get upset and ask, ‘why they have they got a problem with me?’
Leanne even had to report to the police when he was beaten by a kid when she went to pick him up from school.
She said: “I pulled up in the car park and I said come out of reception to the car and he said yes. While I was waiting for him, they beat him up. They had waited outside reception for him.”
He was unable to handle the bullies but punched back once because he had had enough.
However, when a group of five punched him when Harrison was going to the library or sensory room to eat his lunch and he was forced to hide in a toilet, the mother decided it’s better to pull him out of school.
The mother said: “He just wants some friends. Children with autism struggle with social things anyway and feel isolated so to not go to school and be at home with me alone all day is not good. He only gets two hours of learning.”
Harrison will now be starting another school next week.
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