Cory Pingeton, High School Student, Sucker-Punched In Face At School (VIDEO)

Cory Pingeton, an 18-year-old student at Franklin High School in Franklin, Mass., required medical attention after an unnamed suspect viciously attacked him in the school's hallway. After fleeing the campus following the attack, the suspected assailant now faces criminal charges, WBZ-TV reports.

Video of the attack later surfaced online and police have said the person who took the video -- who has not been identified -- could face legal action.

“I was in complete shock,” Pingeton told police, according the Milford Daily News. “I didn’t really know what was going on.”

Authorities believe the assault occurred after the suspect believed Pingeton was "talking trash about him" -- a claim the 18-year-old refutes.

According to the paper, Pingeton was treated at Milford Regional Medical Center for broken bones around his eye, a swollen retina and other injuries.

On Monday, WCVB-TV reported that the suspect will face felony assault charges.

The school also released a statement in support of Pingeton.

"This cowardly act is disturbing and it does not reflect the expectations we espouse as a school district or as a community," the school said in a statement according to WCVB-TV. "We are committed to ensuring all of our students are safe while they are in school."

Other school bullying incidents:

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• Cequan Haskins

  Chilling video of 10-year-old Cequan Haskins being viciously bullied on a school bus in May 2011 was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/cequan-haskins-10-year-old-bus-bullying-video_n_1695719.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">released publicly by the boy's mother at a press conference</a> in Appomattox County, Va. Video of physical and verbal abuse goes on for 40 minutes and includes racial and sexual slurs, as well as Cequan screaming as two 15-year-old boys allegedly hold a hot cigarette lighter to his skin.

• Nadia Ilse

  To ward off school bullies who began taunting her in the first grade for her ears, Nadia Ilse begged her mother at the age of 10 for an otoplasty -- an operation to pin her ears back. At the age of 14, Nadia was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/28/nadia-isle-bullied-georgi_n_1712548.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">granted her wish by the Little Baby Face Foundation</a>, a charity that provides free corrective surgery to children born with facial deformities.

• Isabella Lounder

  Isabella Lounder, a 7-year-old student with special needs, was afraid to return for her first day of school in the fall of 2012. Mother Nicole Lounder says Isabella, who has dwarfism, was ignored by school officials, wetting her pants numerous times after failed attempts to use toilets that were out of her reach. Students would also pick her up, hurting her arms, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/17/isabella-lounder-student-_n_1798770.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">and she was once locked out of the school.</a>

• Indiana Teen

  A student from Franklin Township Middle School East in Indiana was arrested after a cell phone video of a vicious school bus fight was posted to Facebook in August 2012. The fight broke out <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/franklin-township-middle-_n_1843062.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">when one student had taken a seat on the bus that another wanted.</a>

• Washington Teen

  A Washington state student was terrorized in a bullying attack by peers -- <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/john-rosi-washington-midd_n_1841998.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">and at some points, by the teacher</a>. The incidents occurred in February at a Gig Harbor middle school. Cell phone footage shows more than a dozen students dragging the then-eighth-grade boy around the classroom, carrying him by his arms and legs, burying him under chairs, writing on his feet and stuffing his socks in his mouth. The antics last about 15 minutes while teacher John Rosi watches, and later joins in.

• Katie Uffens

  Katie Uffens left Westview High School earlier in 2012 and enrolled in a home-school charter program after she was told about the existence of a group called the “KKK” —<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/bullying-continued-for-sa_n_1919888.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying"> short for the “Kill Katie Klub.”</a> But the 16-year-old San Diego cheerleader who was repeatedly bullied by her peers says the taunting continued even after she dropped out.

• Dalton Fleenor

  Oklahoma high school junior Dalton Fleenor reportedly told another student -- while away from campus -- “What he did was a p---- thing to do,” referring to a fellow classmate. The next day at school, the classmate in question punched Fleenor twice in the back of the head. Both students faced suspension, as Newcastle High School <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/oklahoma-high-school-stud_n_1862748.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">treated the incident as a case of bullying</a>.

• Whitney Kropp

  Whitney Kropp, a Michigan 16-year-old sophomore, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/30/community-lauds-victim-of_0_n_1927380.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">was the victim of an apparent prank by classmates.</a> Kropp was named to the homecoming court of the 800-student school in the fall of 2012, but said she felt betrayed after some students suggested her selection was a joke. She said she had been picked on in the past, but it intensified afterward.

• Preston Deener

  Preston Deener, a sophomore at Brunswick High School in Maryland, was the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/preston-deener-brunswick-_n_1954821.html?utm_hp_ref=education">victim of a bullying attack</a> in October 2012 just as he was preparing for an on-camera interview with a local television station about his experience being bullied.

• Karen Klein

  Karen Huff Klein, a bus monitor for the Greece School District in Greece, N.Y., received an outpouring of support after a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/greece-school-district-bullied-footage-causes-outrage_n_1612925.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">ten-minute video of her enduring vicious bullying</a> while watching over students on a bus ride home was uploaded to YouTube.

• Stormy RIch

  Stormy Rich, an 18-year-old Florida student, says she was punished in May 2012 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/28/stormy-rich-florida-high-_n_1551350.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">after reporting bullying of a special needs student</a> on a school bus, and standing up to those bullies when the school didn't take action.

• Rachel Ehmke

  Rachel Ehmke, a 13-year-old seventh grader in Mantorville, Minn., died April 29, 2012 after hanging herself at her home. The months leading up to the tragedy <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/rachel-ehmke-13-year-old-_n_1501143.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">were a whirlwind of peer abuse instances</a>, her parents say.

• Akian Chaifetz

  In April 2012, Stuart Chaifetz sent his 10-year-old son Akian to New Jersey's Horace Mann Elementary School wearing a hidden audio recorder, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/stuart-chaifetz-father-wire-son-records-teacher-abuse_n_1447330.html" target="_hplink">uncovering verbal and emotional abuse from his son's classroom aide and teacher</a>.

• Joel Morales

  Joel Morales, a 12-year-old student in East Harlem, New York City, hanged himself in May 2012 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/joel-morales-hangs-self-bullying-dead-father_n_1559450.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">after bullies at school taunted him</a> for his size, intelligence and the death of his father.

• Darnell "Dynasty" Young

  Darnell "Dynasty" Young, a 17-year-old gay student at Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, Ind., <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/darnell-dynasty-young-gay-student-stun-gun_n_1471921.html" target="_hplink">faced expulsion in May 2012</a> after he fired a stun gun at bullies he claims were about to beat him up.

• Oklahoma Student

  A 14-year-old student from Longfellow Middle School in Enid, Okla., <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/oklahoma-middle-schooler-seriously-injured-in-school-bullying-incident_n_1456356.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">was left seriously injured</a> and had to undergo surgery after an incident of bullying went too far.

• Corey Pingeton

  Cory Pingeton, an 18-year-old student at Franklin High School in Franklin, Mass., <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/cory-pingeton-high-school-student-sucker-punched-at-school_n_1465390.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">required medical attention</a> in April 2012 after an unnamed suspect viciously attacked him in the school's hallway. After fleeing the campus following the attack, the suspected assailant now faced criminal charges.

• Julio Artuz

  15-year-old Julio Artuz in November 2011 spoke out about his special needs teacher bullying him, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/julio-artuz-15-records-teacher-verbally-abusing_n_1097166.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">filming an encounter with the teacher at Bankbridge Regional School in New Jersey.</a>

• Ohio Boy

  A 10-year-old Ohio boy in April 2012 brought a BB gun to school <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/ohio-school-bb-gun-bullies_n_1438333.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">to fend off bullies.</a>

• Sawyer Rosenstein

  New Jersey student Sawyer Rosenstein received <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/nj-bullys-paralyzing-punc_n_1435176.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">a $4.2 million settlement</a> from the Ramsey school district years after a bully's punch paralyzed him for life.

• Female Students

  In March 2012, two female students from Mooresville High School in North Carolina were suspended after another student used her cellphone to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/mooresville-high-school-bus-bullying-video_n_1373894.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">film the girls viciously bullying a male student on a school bus.</a>

• Lennon Baldwin

  15-year-old Lennon Baldwin, a freshman at Morristown High School in New Jersey, committed suicide in April 2012, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/lennon-baldwin-15-year-old-commits-suicide-after-being-bullied_n_1398147.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">and police are investigating whether bullying was to blame.</a>

• David Pecoraro

  David Pecoraro, a math teacher at Beach Channel High School in New York, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/19/david-pecoraro-serial-spi_n_1287929.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">was reassigned to an administrative office </a>after video of him swatting at and spitting on a student surfaced online in February 2012.

• Kaleb Kula

  Kaleb Kula, a sixth grader with autism, was brutally beaten to the ground at his Maryland school bus stop in January 2012 while his peers stood by to watch -- <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/kaleb-kula-autistic-6th-g_n_1222068.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">and catch the act on camera.</a>

• Warren Lewis

  Warren Lewis, a Houston teenager accused of shooting a classmate in the leg at school, said in January 2012 that he was defending himself from a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/teen-in-texas-school-shoo_0_n_1200385.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">group of boys who had been bullying him.</a>

• Phoebe Prince

  A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/28/phoebe-prince-bullying-la_n_1172755.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink"> was settled for $225,000 in December 2011.</a> <strong>Correction:</strong> A previous version of this slide incorrectly stated the date of settlement.

• Restraining Order

  Kentucky mother Joy Furman claims her 9-year-old daughter has been bullied for two years at school, and seeks a restraining order against a fourth-grade boy she accused of tormenting her daughter, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/girls-mom-seeks-restraini_n_1450299.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">kicking her in the chest and chasing her with scissors.</a>

• Ashlynn Connor

  In November 2011, 10-year-old Ashlynn Connor hanged herself in her closet by a scarf, just a few weeks after she told her mother she was being bullied at Ridge Farm Elementary School in Illinois <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/ashlynn-conner-ten-year-o_n_1092683.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">and her mother denied the girl's request to be home schooled.</a>

• Kelly Chafins, Christy Wilt

  Kelly Chafins and Christy Wilt of Miami Trace Middle School in Ohio were caught on tape in the fall of 2011 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/kelly-chaffins-christy-wi_n_1081980.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">verbally abusing a 14-year-old special needs student.</a> Chaffins resigned and Wilt was scheduled to undergo a probation period as well as eight hours of mandatory training in "how to recognize child abuse and stop bullying."

• Patty Fabian

  In October 2011, 15-year-old Patty Fabian was left with black eyes and a broken nose after <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/patty-fabian-15-year-old-bullied_n_1079761.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">a peer at Garland High School in Texas viciously assaulted her.</a> Video of the assault was posted on YouTube while Fabian was rushed to the hospital.

• Rebecca Arellano, Haileigh Adams

  In the fall of 2011, Rebecca Arellano was crowned Patrick Henry High School's first lesbian homecoming king. The next day, her girlfriend Haileigh Adams was crowned queen. Despite widespread support from the school and the couple's friends and family, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/rebecca-arellano-haileigh_n_1070436.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">the couple subsequently received waves of hateful phone calls and emails.</a>

• Nicolette Taylor

  In the fall of 2011, 13-year-old Nicolette Taylor from Long Island <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/nicolette-taylor-13-year-_n_1007371.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">decided to get plastic surgery</a> after enduring online harassment and name-calling multiple times a week because of the shape of her nose.

• Jamey Rodemeyer

  Taunted since grade school for hanging out with girls, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer told his parents things were finally getting better since high school started. Meanwhile, on a blog his parents didn't know about, he posted increasingly desperate notes ruminating on suicide, bullying, homophobia and pop singer Lady Gaga. A few days later, he hanged himself outside his home in suburban Buffalo, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/jamey-rodemeyers-suicide-_n_987054.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">quickly gaining a fame like that described in one of his idol's songs. </a>

• Justin Aaberg

  15-year-old Justin Aaberg committed suicide in July 2010 after what his mother Tammy Aaberg says was relentless anti-gay bullying at his Minnesota school. Tammy Aaberg has since gathered signatures for a petition and marched to the office of her congresswoman, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/tammy-aaberg-mother-of-te_n_966455.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, to call on Bachmann to publicly address gay bullying.</a>

• Zachary

  When video of 15-year-old Zachary being beaten over and over again by a classmate went viral in October 2011, the school told the gay teen that he need to "tone [himself] down." The school's handling of the attack outraged Zach's mother Becky Collins, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/teen-speaks-out-after-vic_n_1095874.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">who couldn't understand why officials would say her son needed to change, instead of the bullies. </a>

Comments

[brokerallen]

03:09 AM on 06/16/2012

When something like this happens where I live in California the school administration doesn't want to get involved. Violence at schools needs to come under the umbrella of Federal Law with mandatory consequences ranging from expulsion to prison. Bullying and violence continue because they are tolerated by those in authority.

[The Real Hank]

07:38 AM on 05/07/2012

YOU SHOULD GO BACK IN THAT LUNCH ROOM AND CHOKE SLAM THAT KID'S GIRLFRIEND RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. DON'T CALL THE NEWSPAPER EVERYTIME SOME KIDS GET INTO A FIGHT. WORK IT OUT VIOLENTLY.
HOORAH!

[cut to the chase]

06:13 PM on 05/03/2012

Felony charges! Woo! Hopefully the attackers get what they deserve (yes, the person taping is an attacker). I also hope this student does not end up with any vision issues. These stories truly break my heart.

[iberoguy]

10:52 PM on 05/02/2012

Hellooo! This was an ambush.....why would somebody will be taping someone walking down the hall who suddenly is been attacked? He knew what was about to happen. He or she needs to be charged with conspiracy. That shows you how dumb these guys are.

[hawaiianstile]

04:58 PM on 05/02/2012

first story i have read in quite some time where i agree entirely with the school. the correct course of action here is to make a major example of these 2. its not much of a loss, based on their actions here, they didnt have much of a future any way. this was the act of a scared insecure boy, overwhelming need to make himself feel strong, no balls to face his opponent up and up. these coward tactics wont work so well in jail. i think a few bouts of intestinal devastation while in jail is just what these 2 need.

[specialkinwa]

02:19 AM on 05/02/2012

A kid gets punched at school. By another student. This is newsworthy because....?

[hawaiianstile]

04:58 PM on 05/02/2012

probably because the school is taking appropriate action. how often does THAT happen.

[juicybrisket]

12:01 AM on 05/02/2012

this bullying epidemic is getting way out of hand. parents need to start punishing their kids more.

my friend's daughter is constantly being bullied at school, with the boys telling her to go in the bathroom and make herself puke and become bulimic...this other girl keeps telling her to off herself...the school says they have a zero tolerance policy for bullying but they dont enforce it. its ridiculous.

[jel3800]

11:33 PM on 05/02/2012

parents dont raise their children to respect anybody or anything these days. by the ttime kids are this age there is little schools can do---the parents have already not done too much

[juicybrisket]

11:41 PM on 05/02/2012

yeah. my friend told me most of their parents are always drinking at the local VFW instead of being home with their kids. that tells me everything.

[RocheTm]

07:03 PM on 05/04/2012

Basically this is correct.

People teach children to respect nothing and no one.

[brokerallen]

09:15 PM on 06/27/2012

We need to pay teachers more. It supposedly works for everything else.

[candlesmp]

11:48 PM on 05/01/2012

The assailant is a coward. if someone is talking smack about you - that's not the way to approach the issue. He needs to be charged with assault.

[anthonytaurus]

09:38 PM on 05/01/2012

Hammer of Justice kid strikes again LOL

[ivanivonovich]

08:39 PM on 05/01/2012

There is never any reason to use physical violence against another person just because you think, or know they are talking trash about you. Get yourself some self esteem. Now just because of this, the assailent is facing Felony assault charges, which probably will follow him the rest of his life...Sorry no college, no Military, no working at most schools, you get the point ? Stupid decision too because you can never change what others say about you with a simple act of violence. It just doesn't work.

[MelanieMorgasm]

07:22 PM on 05/01/2012

lets supposed the kid punching cory were gay and he had done what he did because cory had been making fun of his sexuality. would that change your view of this?

[candlesmp]

11:43 PM on 05/01/2012

Nope. Violence isn't the answer, regardless of sexuality, and who said what...

[Beth Hill]

06:03 PM on 05/01/2012

who's that guy just standing there on the left side of the hallway? He doesn't even react or see how the victim is doing. That's weird.

[hawaiianstile]

05:04 PM on 05/02/2012

thats what i thought as well. i would wonder based on his non-reaction if he was in on the plot.

[amandanunez]

04:55 PM on 05/01/2012

In the 11th slide it said that "Ashlynn Connor hanged herself in her closet"
She "hanged" herself? Isn't it hung? I've never heard of somebody who hanged them self.

[thelastkindwords]

05:15 PM on 05/01/2012

Hanged refers to execution. Hung refers to items.

[thelastkindwords]

05:17 PM on 05/01/2012

Hanged refers to mode of death. Hung refers to objects, usually inanimate.

[Dilligner]

04:40 PM on 05/01/2012

I hope that kid who punched goes to jail and gets a felony on his record

[ivanivonovich]

08:42 PM on 05/01/2012

Well it looks likely so. But he could plead it down to a misdemeanor.

[foreverhippie]

12:40 AM on 05/10/2012

Doubt the local DA will be in a forgiving mood. Unless the assailents folks a ri$h.

[bosd]

01:37 PM on 05/01/2012

Best way to beat a bully is to ostracize the bully. And maybe taking some self-defense classes wouldn't hurt either, especially when the bully tries to sucker-punch the "intended victim." With enough practice/training, at the very least, the student should be in a much better situation to defend one-self. With further training, the student will most likely see the "kill-shot" when in a fight.