Ten year olds should be safe at school. Can you imagine sending your child to school to learn, to play and to simply be a kid. Then just hours later, you’re standing over his/her hospital bed desperate to see their eyes open?
Raniya Wright, a fifth grader at Forest Hills Elementary School in Walterboro, South Carolina, died Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Raniya was described as a wonderful student who loved to spend time with friends and play basketball, according to a statement from the Colleton County School District.
On Monday, the ten year old girl was severely beaten in her classroom at Forest Hills Elementary School.
According to a family member, a female child “stomped on her head” and the teachers did nothing to intervene. It was reported that Raniya was throwing up and passed out in the nurse’s office before being airlifted. An autopsy will be conducted on Friday to determine Raniya’s exact cause of death.
When asked whether the fight stemmed from a bullying issue, Sean Gruber, communications director for the school district, said he could not comment on the ongoing investigation. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office stated today, “We are still unable to disclose any information regarding this incident due to this being an on-going investigation.”
The Colleton County School District has issued several statements regarding what they called a “fight in the classroom” at Forest Hills, a K-5 school serving nearly 800 children. The school district has also been very selective with the information being shared. But regardless of what’s shared and what’s not, the truth remains. A mother sent her elementary daughter to school where she was beaten to death by another student. Now, let that sink in.
It’s very easy to point fingers and assume we have the whole story when we may or may not. But there are no excuses that could be shared that would justify a child having to die such a horrible death in the presence of people who could have helped her but chose not to.
The other child in the “fight” was suspended on Monday and no charges have been filed. A South Carolina teacher actually shared on Facebook that teachers are not allowed to intervene in such cases and are supposed to call for an administrator. Do you think this is a reasonable standard at an elementary school?
Everyday, families send their children to public elementary schools and none of them expect that they will be beaten by a peer to the point of death. Tonight, every parent who knows about this story will probably stand at their child’s door and watch them sleep grateful that they didn’t have to post what Ashley Wright posted.
“As of 9:39am, my baby girl has gained her wings,” Raniya’s mother, Ashley Wright, shared this morning.
This death was completely avoidable and senseless. Our country is need of help. Our children are growing up to be very angry and heartless individuals. Remember to embrace every child that crosses your path. You never know when your effort and influence will be the turning point in their lives.
Please keep Raniya’s mom, brother, family and friends in your prayers.
This is very sad very sad that no one did anything do you think that your child will be safe at school and nowadays you have to homeschool your child just to be safe to make sure they come home.and for no one to step in and even care about this poor little girl despite what colors she might have been it doesn’t matter this was an innocent child and now she have earned her wings may God bless her mother and family and please see Justice amen. I wish that I can just talk to her mother comfort her at the time of this need she needs it I know deeply she is hurting and I am so sorry for your loss
This is truly heartbreaking. I have absolutely no understanding as to WHY and HOW a adult let alone a teacher stand by and watch a child beat another child to death!! I don’t give a damn what the rules are…. You had to clearly see that this child was in very serious danger of being terribly injured let alone being beat to death. This mother has lost her precious child and all the school can say is “we’re so sorry” I’m so damn sick of hearing these meaningless words when something that was completely avoidable has happened. I’m quite sure that it is of no comfort to her mother and family to hear “we’re sorry” That violent child, her parents, and the school/school district absolutely need to be held accountable for this child’s death!! My heart and sincere condolences go out to Raniya’s mother and her family. I am truly sorry for her loss. May GOD hold you and keep you in great time of sorrow. R. I. H. Raniya. 😇😇😇❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
I totally agree with you Kymberly Jones. I remember when my daughter was being bullied back in pre-school. She was only 4-years-old and she was afraid to go to school because she kept telling me and my mom that a girl was pinching her and kicking her and pulling her hair. At first we didn’t think anything of it until we found out the girl sat right next to her. So we spoke with her teacher about it. They then moved her seat, but the girl still continued to bully my daughter. The teachers never told us who the girl was but my daughter had already pointed the girl out, so I knew who she was. Anyway, things seemed to calm down a bit until she bit my daughter on the face and that’s when I lost it. They still wouldn’t tell me who bit her. All they could say was, “We’re sorry, but another student bit her in the face because there was a toy that she had and she wanted it.” However, they didn’t tell me who it was, but I already knew. All hell broke loose in that school after that. I was screaming at the top of my lungs at the girls parents and threatened to beat them both of if their daughter continued to bully my daughter. Afterwards, the principal had to call a meeting for us all where I explained that my daughter had been bullied by their child. After that, she never messed with my daughter again. And whenever I bumped into her parents in the store, they actually spoke to me.
Please press charges please it will teach the bullied a very vauble lesson these school districts are not concerned about these kids safety but they know how many days they missed if they miss to many they want to take parents to court lock them up but never understand why the child missing so many days to begin with and its because this very problem bullying its sad on so many levels went through this with my son when he was 13 got attack right in classroom by boy sucker punched my son right in his eye in tryed to chock the life out of him in teacher did nothing i seen his black eye when he came home no call letter nothing from school my daughter 9 years old out at this new county school 2 different ones first time ever had been getting bullied by boy and other school a girl she was like why do kids do this mom i told her simply lack of parenting at home its just sad im so pissed this happened to this precious baby i wish i could go hug in hold her mom !!
You are right. All these schools are concerned about is getting paid. They could care less about the safety of our kids. That’s why sometimes you have to take matters in your own hands to protect your kids.
This hurts me to my core!!! I cannot possibly imagine what Raniya’s mother is going through at this time. That baby had not even begun to live! I hear that there is no pain worse than losing a child…every parent who is a true parent wants to leave a legacy for their children, and this poor woman has to say goodbye to her baby after only having her for 10 years. My heart aches for this family…keeping them in my thoughts and prayers.
When I first read the article of this horrible attack on a innocent 10 year old girl at Elementary school to get an education ends up being beaten to the point of having to be airlifted is absolutely outrageous. When I saw the picture of her mother leaning over her it broke my heart. I am praying for Raniya’s mother and entire family. May God’s love, grace, mercy, strengthen and comfort you. I am so saddened by the death of beautiful baby girl.
It’s wrong for the school to say that the teachers can not intervene durning a school fight ….it’s their place to make sure their class is safe so I feel like breaking up the fight would’ve had a better outcome 🤦🏽♀️The teacher should be fired ‼️Cause who sits and watch a child stomp on another child head
Lord have mercy on this whole sitnation, the thing that’s so sad about the tragedies happening in our schools and our children, and grandkids, is that stupid devil have freedom to do whatever evil he can do, because there is no “God” and no “Prayer” in our schools, so if the kids are not covered in Prayer before they leave home, they are like a blind person out there on their own, my heart goes out to the family, and I also feel for the child that killed this baby, and she is a baby, they are all babies, I pray that God heals them all, and the family seeks justice, Thank You Jesus!!
There are so many things to
why are there so many evil things happening to such young babies, and the people that’s doing some of these evil acts are babies, come on Jesus, there is no covering over these children in our schools, I am talking about Prayer covering, when you go out in the rain, if you don’t have an umbrella, you get wet, so without that Prayer cover, all kind of evil can and will happen, so let’s get busy on trying to get Prayer covering back in our schools, and to the family of the little Angel, she’s gone to see that man call Jesus In Heaven, God is with your family, cast your cards on him, Amen!! Halelujah, Thank You Lord!!!
OMG! This is a tragedy that could have been avoided. I don’t care what the rules are, I would rather go to jail, than watch someone beat a child. Where is the compassion here. People in general are becoming so angry & vindictive. Can’t we be kind to one another? To the mother who lost her daughter, I can’t even imagine your pain.
You are in my thoughts and prayers. God is watching over her now & she is safe. I’m sending you all my love & hugs.