Video Shows Violent Attack on Teenage Girl

Video Shows Violent Attack on Teenage Girl: MyFoxPHOENIX.com

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Updated: Friday, 23 Mar 2012, 5:39 PM MST
Published : Friday, 23 Mar 2012, 5:38 PM MST

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. - Video of a violent attack taken in the halls of a Bullhead City High School has gone viral. Now the 14-year-old victim's father is speaking out.

Julian Perez says his daughter was attacked twice at Mohave High School in just the past couple of months.

He says school officials didn't do enough to prevent a second brutal attack on his daughter.

In this video, Mohave High School students encourage, even take video of an attack on their 14-year-old classmate.

As the victim screams, students laugh and yell until a school official steps in.

Julian Perez says his daughter was attacked because she broke off a friendship with the bullies.

“My daughter just tried to distance herself because they were friends and it was kind of like she just didn’t want to be in that element anymore,” says Perez.

The initial fight took place in January. That attacker was suspended for 10 days while the Perez family pressed charges. Then, the first attacker's best friend targeted the same victim on March 7 when the video was taken.

“The little girl that assaulted her the second time had told her, don’t unfriend us, we unfriend you,” says Perez.

Perez's daughter came home with blood around her pupil and cuts on her face. She had two large bumps on her head from being slammed to the floor as her classmates cheered.

“That’s the sad part about it, is that there was all these kids and all they wanted to see was more and more.”

Perez removed his daughter from the school and started spreading the word about bullying.

“Don’t ever stop. These are our kids and they need us to be a voice for them as much as we need them to grow up and be the next generation of us,” he says.

Perez tells us that he tried to discuss the problem with school staff but that they never made time for him.

The school's principal Phil Garland told the Mohave Daily News they're treating this not just as a fight but as an assault and criminal attack.

That 15-year-old attacker has been arrested and she could be expelled.