SUFFOLK, Va. — A 10-year-old Suffolk student is recovering from serious injuries after being assaulted on a school bus, according to police and the child's mother.

Elizabeth Fegans said her son, a student at Mack Benn Elementary School, came home in tears on September 24th after being attacked by an 11-year-old on the same bus.

"He got in the door. He's screaming, with visible marks all over his body," Fegans said. "I immediately took him to the ER, and they took him back in a wheelchair, and that's when I found out he had fractured vertebra."

The vertebra is a bone in the top of the spine. Fegans said her son's injuries occurred after he and the 11-year-old exchanged words on the bus. She alleges the older student then began punching and kicking her son.

"He's got swelling in his neck

See Full Page