Patty Fabian, 15-Year-Old, Bullied, Assault Posted On YouTube (VIDEO)

Fifteen-year-old Patty Fabian's mother told her that if the bullying at her Texas high school ever turned violent, she should never fight back.

On October 25th, that's exactly what the student did when another teen viciously assaulted her, leaving the Garland High School student with black eyes and a broken nose, NBC Dallas Fort Worth reported.

After Fabian and her mother returned from the emergency room, the victim's friends informed her that ordeal was far from over--within hours friends of her attacker had posted the assault on YouTube.

At first, police issued the teen attacker a Class C assault misdemeanor citation, but later increased the charge to a Class A, which is punishible by a fine and up to one year in jail, My FOX Dallas Fort Worth reported.

Despite the charges and the administrations's promise to extend their anti-bullying campaign, Patty's mother Gracie Fabian told NBC that she doesn't want her daughter at the school any longer.

"I don't feel that she is being protected at school," she told NBC. "They're still bothering her, they're still calling her names, and I don't think that the school can protect her at all."

Back in 2009, surveillance video revealed a school bus driver and a special education aide hitting, kicking and choking an student with autism. A few months ago, the pair were convicted of criminal charges.

WATCH Patty Fabian and her mother speak out on the TODAY Show:

Comments

[tebowfan4life]

09:43 AM on 11/18/2011

Wow! :( I feel bad for her :( My cousin's husband had his jaw broken by her ex-boyfriend because he was so ticked off. I was freaked out when I heard about that! But if I was the mother, I'd talk to the teachers about it....heck....I'd march right to the Principal's office and have him hear me out! I wouldn't want that to happen to my son or daughter! I hope Patty is feeling better!

[Bonita1013]

10:46 PM on 11/10/2011

Just to clarify a point for the mother of this child. In some school district, if the victim fights back they are suspended too. Only when they don't fight back they don't get into trouble with the school.

I find this policy appalling, it futher victimizes the children being bullied. It does not allow them to defend themselves. Whoever thought of this solution for bullied kids needs to have their head examined.

[tracyamanda]

10:09 AM on 11/09/2011

All I can say is god help the person who ever laid a hand on my child-they would need it when i'm done.

[HermaO]

08:30 AM on 11/09/2011

Physicallt attacking a fellow student, and then posting the video on Youtube... What is wrong with this kid?
What kind of education do they receive that will give them not only the feeling that tit's ok for them to act like this, but also this surreal sense of immunity?

[ipleathe5thh]

06:05 PM on 11/08/2011

Bring back the paddle that might make em think twice now i'm too young to know the paddle but stories my mom and dad have told me would surely make me think twice before doing anything to get that thick board broadside on my kiester.....Let's have A "Bring Back The Paddle Campaing"

[ibeyour1]

09:56 PM on 11/08/2011

I lived the paddle. We even made em in wood shop and presented them to the principal to use on us. I made the best one. Laminated thing of beauty. Even drilled holes in it. It hurt but stopped no fights.

[ipleathe5thh]

06:01 PM on 11/08/2011

More needs to be done about bullying teachers and school adms arent doing enough by just saying don't bully in between classes teachers need to patrol the hallways thats what they did at my school and the biggest bullying event we had was girls calling eachother names there are things schools can do to protect students but just simply are not doing. Parents are helpless to help because they are not there and even when their child comes home busted up and the parents complain rarely anything is done about it and when it comes to telling and talking to the students invloveed it's always 4 or 5 aginst one and of course all of the bully friends are going to say they didn't see or see him/her do anything and the princapal lets em go with a warning or a couple days of ISS rarely do they get kicked out not untill police get invloved

[ibeyour1]

09:49 PM on 11/08/2011

video cameras all over would solve it. One time and your out.

[alteredstory]

02:49 PM on 11/08/2011

Eh, fighting back made no real difference in my case.

One time a couple kids tried to hit me at once from both sides and I moved out of the way so they hit each other (it was rather odd) and the blamed me, and proceeded to continue to harass me with their friends for most of the day.

There's nothing that works "every time".

[AliceEatPeyote]

12:43 PM on 11/08/2011

What a terrible, terrible mother.

[ibeyour1]

05:30 PM on 11/08/2011

you are high right?

[AliceEatPeyote]

08:43 PM on 11/08/2011

she told her daughter to let then beat her....

[tek1]

09:59 AM on 11/08/2011

My ten year old son and I were having the bully conversation this weekend. I told him to win as many fights as he could using words. When that didn't work, use his fists. As much as we would like to be a more advanced society, and we certainly are to a large degree, sometimes we revert to our animal instincts.

Turning a cheek is good and right. Turning both means you are taking a beating.

[jaymetal]

06:16 AM on 11/08/2011

Stories like this are becoming all too common! It would appear legislators in Michigan only compound the problem with its disgusting new law that allows bullying, but, only through morally and religious reasoning mind you! An open recipe for pending doom. Have we not forgotten the ugly consequences from the past or is there another Columbine in the coming future?? Mark my word sure as i'm sitting here, if we do not get ahold of the reins now and address this issue and take and make some peaceable resolutions, there is going to be another day of reckoning. Fact! not FICTION! Sad, but true. Wake up Michigan and others like you across the nation. Has the ability to gain control in our schools a testament to the current trend of 'death' and 'destruction' that plague our schools and society as a whole?? Choice is clear. Die now or die later! Be apart of the solution, not the problem. Speak up and act! Teach your children now at home or visit them later in a prison or a jail near you! Why must it always be hate that spreads like wild fire? Why can't love, and understanding prevail? Who's turn is it today to be a victim? Who will show up on youtube and who will show at the county morgue? Who today will survive another day on the battleground? Who's coming home and who is not? Goodbye daughter. Goodbye son. Goodbye friend. We all have choices. Will you choose wisely?

[rickgardn]

06:12 AM on 11/08/2011

Thats what happens when you take discipline out of control of teachers and principals.And thats a start of whats wrong with this country. NO d-m discipline. And people wander why crime is up and the,s young kids have no morals at all.Discipline starts at home.

[JStading]

09:06 AM on 11/08/2011

Crime is down....substantially. I have no idea what you're talking about.

[alteredstory]

02:45 PM on 11/08/2011

Yeah, crime is down.

REPORTING on crime is up, but that's capitalism at work, not bad parenting...

[robertste998]

05:20 AM on 11/08/2011

The Superintendant of this school should be fired and striped of any pension benifits. They can handle this kind of thing in the blink of an eye if they think its important enough. Its a sin that the school is so spineless.

[alteredstory]

02:45 PM on 11/08/2011

I'm curious - what could they do to "handle" this?

[ibeyour1]

05:27 PM on 11/08/2011

no easy answer. just like fixing our economy.

[robertste998]

01:55 PM on 11/11/2011

duh! Call the police, bar Sandusky from school property, inform the press. No second child would have been victimized!

[artorius317]

05:16 AM on 11/08/2011

I remember standing up to one of my bullies (Shawn) while getting on the bus one day after school. The next day, one of HIS friends (Rodney, one that would pick on me as well) told me Shawn was going to jump me in 6th period as payback, but not to worry, he had my back (yeah right I thougt). I went to the administrators of the school, and the resource officer but was told nothing could be done untill it happend. So when 6th period rolled around I told the teacher the problem and asked to be sat on the other side of the class. Then half way through class I was sucker punched in the back of the head by this kid and the fight was on. When one of his friends didn't like the beating I was giving his friend, he tried to jump in only to be repulsed by the one who told me about the jumping in the first place. To make a long story short, I lost a bully that day and gained a friend and a charge. Yes, I was charged with aggrivated battery and the bully only simple battery. They say it's because the bully started to go back to his seat after sucker punching me and I should not have went after him across the class, but I was tired of the s**t. I took my charge with good grace and a smile on my face!!

[hawaiianstile]

11:02 AM on 11/08/2011

and that was the correct move, the only way is to fight them back. when parents like the one in the article are so foolish as to tell their kids not to fight back, they set them up for more frequent and severe bullying.

[AliceEatPeyote]

12:48 PM on 11/08/2011

This is why I hate the world. Justice is entirely flawed.
I have a similar story, some one sucker punched me and I attacked her back. I got expelled and charged while she got a few days of ISS.

[Swiftyfish]

05:13 AM on 11/08/2011

It' important to crack down on the bullying laws in schools. No child should have to endure this torture. In an age of technology advancement, bullying has reached a new level of severity. You can now post your hate on the net and get away with it. Not only do they have to endure it at school but this behavior can now effect them at home. The ramification of allowing bullying is the impact of lifelong changes in in a child's self esteem, and possibly even the early ending of a child's life. We have a responsibility to protect our children from these behaviors.

[Syllogizer]

02:57 PM on 11/08/2011

But if we have this responsibility, why have we been electing to school boards people who evade and distort this responsibility, who NEVER administer justice in the school system?

[artorius317]

04:54 AM on 11/08/2011

Bullies always target the one with the lowest self esteem.