Superintendent statement after student ‘hanged’ in bathroom [Video]

CHARLES COUNTY, Md. — News about a 7-year-old found hanged in a Charles County Public School bathroom took social media by storm over the weekend. The victim’s mother posted on social media that her child was hanged by his hoodie onto a hook in a bathroom stall and was hospitalized as a result.

“My child who is a second grader was hung in the boys’ bathroom by a fourth grader,” the mother’s social media post read.  “I received the most traumatizing phone call from the school stating that my child was being rushed to children’s hospital in NW … I’m feeling anger and seeing red, but my son is here by the grace of GOD, and I will forever be thankful!” 

Paperwork provided by the family from the hospital lists one of his injuries as neck contusion — which is caused by blunt trauma. …