Cape Cod girl, 15, vanished after cruel school bully was filmed slapping her, dragging her by hair and making her lick bathroom floor
a Massachusetts The high school is in turmoil after a student went missing days after receiving a severe beating from another girl who made her lick the bathroom floor.
A cheerful friend of the bully filmed the attack on Aliyah Konton at Mashpee High School before causing the humiliating footage to go viral. Snapchat.
The 15-year-old had only recently moved to the Cape Cod school and was trying to “fit in,” according to a classmate.
A school employee alerted police after discovering the video on May 25, but parents remained in the dark about the attack until Aliyah disappeared eight days later.
“The lack of communication and complete lack of accountability and consequences from perpetrators in the school system is beyond shameful,” wrote a mother of three at the school.
Aliyah Konton, 15, disappeared days after she suffered a brutal beating from another girl at Mashpee High School in Massachusetts
An accomplice filmed Aliyah’s tormentor making her lick the bathroom floor
“I hope to God that she is found safe and alive and that the children in that video face the consequences of their heinous actions.”
The video begins with Aliyah standing alone in a school hallway as her attacker stands across from her and an audience of students watch in the background.
They gasp as the bully casually punches her victim in the face before sauntering away.
Then it’s off to the school bathroom where the accomplice has positioned himself to catch the moment the bully steps through the door and drags a screaming Aliyah by her hair.
The 15-year-old begins to sob as she is thrown by her hair to the cubicles at the end of the room and punched in the face again by her circling attacker
Aliyah extends an arm to fend off the girl, but it offers no defense against her agile attacker who lands a series of blows to her head.
A moment later, the young bully suddenly points a finger at the ground near the garbage can.
“Lick the ground,” she demands.
Aliyah hesitates and receives another blow to the head before being dragged to the ground by her hair and forced to lay her face on the ground.
Eight days later, an “intense search using multiple local, state and federal resources” was launched after Aliyah disappeared from her Mashpee home, news of the attack was released and parents reacted with outrage to what they had just discovered.
But it wasn’t until Aliyah disappeared that parents learned of the attack
Classmate Leah Holtz said Aliyah had only recently started school. “It seems like she wanted to fit in and just make friends with everyone,” she told WCVB.
Eight days later, an “intense search using multiple local, state and federal resources” was underway after Aliyah disappeared from her home in Mashpee
“It’s devastating to hear about this horrific incident a week later on Facebook, and not from the school itself,” Jessica Valois wrote.
“Why didn’t the Mashpee school system notify us of this situation?” Corinne Shea asked.
‘Mashpee has always been someone who turns his head when something is going on. If it looks bad on them, they don’t want to talk about it,” added Courtney Negron.
Residents of the small town began talking about organizing search parties and as images of the incident spread, many began calling on Aliyah himself.
Residents of the small town began talking about organizing search parties as images of the incident spread
“Alijah, you are loved and cared for by people who have never met you,” Heather Morel wrote.
‘Please go to a safe place, message someone in this thread, we will help you. Our world needs you.”
“My first thought was, please let this girl know that life gets better after high school,” Corine Shea added.
“What happened to her is a mess and absolutely NO ONE is laughing at those mean girls.”
One of her classmates, Leah Holtz, said Aliyah had only recently started school.
“It seems like she wanted to fit in and just make friends with everyone,” she told WCVB.
“No student, no person should ever be harmed in that way,” she added. “I just feel really sick because I just want her to be found.”
“Still no peep from the school,” Michael DiMaggio wrote Tuesday
“They’re promoting Spirit Day? We, as parents of a 6-year-old in this school system, are seriously considering whether we should keep our child in a school system that allows this.”
But a day later, two guys visiting Planet Fitness in nearby Barnstable saw a girl they thought they recognized from police, noticed missing posters and told the manager.
A 13-year-old girl, who has not been named, is now facing seven charges of assault and battery
He called the police and the missing girl was eventually rescued.
“The city of Mashpee came together for one of its own and I am happy to report once again that she was found safe,” police said.
They also announced that a 13-year-old girl, who they have not identified, now faces seven charges of assault and battery in the juvenile division of Falmouth District Court.
Mashpee Schools Superintendent Patricia DeBoer declined to speak to reporters at a school committee meeting that evening.
But news of Aliyah’s rescue has failed to calm the anger of people in the Massachusetts town.
“What are the consequences for those who videotaped her dragging her into the school bathroom by her hair and beating her and making her lick the floor?” asked Selma Parker. “Can we parents get some answers?”
“The schools need to do a better job,” wrote Matt Bollinder.
“They all talk about this stuff and when it comes time to actually protect kids from bullies, they turn the other way.”
