WELLINGTON, Fla. — A mother says a video of her 15-year-old son being beaten up in a McDonald’s bathroom in Wellington, Florida is being shared among students at Wellington High School.
“I’m terrified for my kid,” said the victim’s mother, whose name Scripps sister station WPTV in West Palm Beach chose to withheld to protect her son’s privacy.
The minute-long video shows a teenager kick open the stall door then proceed to punch the victim, who crouches on top of the toilet. The attacker is also yelling profanities. He pulls the victim to the ground and continues punching and kicking him.
He eventually asks the victim, who is still on the tile floor of the bathroom stall, to put the passcode into his phone. He grabs the phone from his hand then throws it onto the ground.
“I was furious first of all then I became scared and then it was like disbelief,” the victim’s mother said.
She said the incident happened Tuesday after school.
“He ordered some food, he went into the bathroom and he was followed into the bathroom,” she said
Palm Beach Sheriff's Office confirmed an incident happened Tuesday and that a 17-year-old juvenile was arrested.
She said another teenager took the video. She said her son doesn’t personally know either the attacker or the person taking the video.
“In the video, you’ll see this guy kick the stall door open and proceed to beat the crap out of my kid, telling him that it’s because his friend did something wrong,” she said.
She found out about what happened Wednesday when she said she got a call from PBSO. She said students at Wellington High School were sending the video to each other and her son’s friend brought it to the school’s attention.
She said that friend was the person the attacker in the video brought up that he had some sort of issue with, but she said her son doesn’t know the attacker besides hearing of him around school.
She said her son filed a police report with PBSO. WPTV has requested a copy of that report.