VILLA RICA, Ga. — A teenager is recovering after her mother says someone threw a chemical on her back during a fight. It was all caught on video.
Channel 2’s Cory James reported from Villa Rica, where the attack happened Saturday at an apartment complex on Anderson Road. The teen’s mother says her daughter has second- and third-degree burns.
“Everything happened so fast,” Aspen Clark told James.
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Clark says for six months, a group of middle schoolers have been bullying her 14-year-old daughter.
She says it got worse on Saturday when they showed up with boiling water and some sort of chemical. Video shows the moment that liquid was thrown on Clark’s daughter.
“When it escalated, they had a Stanley cup full of liquid, and when they threw it on her, her skin just started dissolving,” Clark said.
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Clark said she took her daughter to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment. She also filed a report with Villa Rica police.
“As Grady told me, if it would have hit her eye, she would have been blind,” she said.
Clark said she later found social media messages about the incident. She says one of the teens posted “Now you burning.”
“And another message was a song that basically said we got you,” Clark said.
James spoke with Sgt. Spencer Crawford with the Villa Rica police department. He says they are investigating what happened.
“It was liquid that was thrown by a third party in the altercation,” Crawford said. “We will look at charges from either side it depends on who started and who escalated it.”
Clark says her daughter is in a lot of pain, but she hopes what has been months of bullying for her daughter will come to an end.
“It’s been about four girls just bullying ... it’s all about some school drama.”
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